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Start Over Formats Text ✖Remove constraint Formats: Text Languages English ✖Remove constraint Languages: English Genre Popular Works ✖Remove constraint Genre: Popular Works Copyright Public domain ✖Remove constraint Copyright: Public domain Dates by Range 1800-1849 ✖Remove constraint Dates by Range: 1800-1849 Publication Year 1847 ✖Remove constraint Publication Year: 1847

5. The house surgeon and physician: designed to assist heads of families, travellers, and sea-faring people in discerning, distinguishing, and curing diseases : with concise directions for the preparation and use of a numerous collection of the best American remedies, together with many of the most approved, from the shop of the apothecary : all in plain English

Author(s):
Hand, William M.
Publication:
Hartford : Andrus, 1847
Subject(s):
Medicine

8. Family physician: designed to assist heads of families, travellers and seafaring people in discerning, distinguishing, and curing diseases : with directions for the preparation and use of a numerous collection of the best American remedies, together with a large number of valuable receipts for making plasters, ointments, oils, poultices, decoctions, syrups or waters made of herbs, the time of gathering all herbs, the way of drying and keeping the herbs all the year, also the way of making and keeping all kinds of useful compounds made of herbs

Author(s):
Frisbee, John.
Publication:
Boston : J. Frisbee, 1847
Subject(s):
Medicine
Phytotherapy

14. The poor man's friend: containing the infallible cure for the black tongue, with its causes and symptoms : also, the only remedy known to prevent the contagion from attacking those in charge of the patient : with the treatment for measles and scarlet fever, and a collection of fifty valuable remedies for various diseases

Author(s):
Richter, W. E.
Publication:
Hagerstown, Md. : Printed at the News Office, 1847
Subject(s):
Typhoid Fever -- therapy
Measles -- therapy
Scarlet Fever -- therapy

15. The lady's own book, or, Female safeguard: containing moral checks to population and a complete practical midwife : it also treats of generation, sterility, impotency, female complaints, the diseases of infants and children, a glossary or medical dictionary, a dispensatory of all the medicines recommended in this work, and many valuable recipes, purely upon reformed medical principles, written in a plain, yet chaste, style, and on moral principles for families and females

Author(s):
Brown, Z. J.
Publication:
Marshall [Michigan] : Statesman Office Print., 1847
Subject(s):
Midwifery
Reproduction
Phytotherapy

18. The medical companion, or, Family physician: treating of the diseases of the United States, with their symptoms, causes, cure, and means of prevention : common cases in surgery, as fractures, dislocations, &c. : the management and diseases of women and children : a dispensatory, for preparing family medicines, and a glossary explaining technical terms : to which are added a brief anatomy and physiology of the human body showing, on rational principles, the cause and cure of diseases : an essay on hygieine [sic], or the art of preserving health without the aid of medicine : an American materia medica, pointing out the virtues and doses of our medicinal plants : also, the nurse's guide

Author(s):
Ewell, James, 1773-1832
Publication:
Philadelphia : Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1847
Subject(s):
Medicine