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2. The American botanist, and family physician: in which the medical virtues of the mineral, animal and vegetable productions of North America are exhibited, together with their uses in the practice of physic and surgery : some of which are selected from Dr. Stearns, and other authors, but mostly original : comprehending a treatise upon the principal disorders of the climate, together with directions for preparing, compounding, and applying proper medicines for their cure : likewise, a large number of Indian discoveries in the medical art, never before published

Author(s):
Monroe, John, active 19th century, author
Publication:
Wheelock (Vt.) : Jonathan Morrison, 1824
Subject(s):
Phytotherapy
Plants, Medicinal
United States

3. The Indian vegetable family instructer: containing the names and descriptions of all the most useful herbs and plants that grow in this country, with their medicinal qualities annexed : also a treatise on many of the lingering diseases to which mankind are subject, with new and plain arguments respecting the management of the same, with a large list of recipes, which have been carefully selected from Indian prescriptions and from those very persons who were cured by the same after every other remedy had failed : designed for the use of families in the United States

Author(s):
Bowker, Pierpont F.
Publication:
Boston : Published by the author, 1836
Subject(s):
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Plants, Medicinal

4. The hospital pupil's guide through London, in a seres [sic] of letters: from a pupil at St. Thomas's Hospital to his friend in the country ; recommending the best manner of a pupils employing his time, and interspersed with amusing anecdotes relative to the history and oeconomy of hospital's

Publication:
London : Printed By A. Seale ; for West and Hughes ; Hughes ; Cox, and Callow, 1800
Subject(s):
Education, Medical
London

7. Outlines of physiology, both comparative and human: in which are described the mechanical, animal, vital, and sensorial organs and functions : also, the application of these principles to muscular exercise, and female fashions and deformities : intended for the use of schools and heads of families : together with a synopsis of human anatomy

Author(s):
Comstock, J. L. (John Lee), 1789-1858
Publication:
New York : Pratt, Woodford, 1848
Subject(s):
Physiological Phenomena
Physiology, Comparative

14. The prudent housewife, or Compleat English cook: being a collection of the newest and least expensive receipes in cookery ... ; and new and infallible rules to be observed in pickling, preserving, brewing, &c ; to which are added, a treasure of valuable medicines, for the cure of every disorder

Author(s):
Fisher, Mrs
Publication:
London : Printed and sold by T. Sabine and Son, no. 81, Shoe-lane, Fleet Street, [1800?]
Subject(s):
Cooking
Medicine, Traditional

16. Domestic medicine, or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines: with an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners ; to which are added, observations on diet ; recommending a method of living less expensive, and more conducive to health, than the present : also, Advice to mothers, on the subject of their own health ; and of the means of promoting the health, strength, and beauty of their offspring

Author(s):
Buchan, William, 1729-1805
Publication:
Boston : Printed for Joseph Bumstead, (printer and bookseller.) ; for sale at his bookstore no. 77, State-Street, and by booksellers in various parts of the United States, 1813
Subject(s):
Medicine

17. 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

19. Formula of prescriptions, and various instructions: for the service and guidance of those who have applied, are applying, or shall apply, to the enemy to human diseases : to which is prefixed, a vindication, concerning the dietical abstinence, detecting the dangerous tendency of several articles forbidden as pernicious to the human body -- in which are included tobacco, salt and salted food, spirituous liquors, all sorts of spices, and coffee

Author(s):
Sylvan.
Publication:
Providence : Printed for the author, 1812
Subject(s):
Therapeutics
Diet

31. The domestic encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of facts, and useful knowledge: comprehending a concise view of the latest discoveries, inventions, and improvements ; chiefly applicable to rural and domestic economy ; together with descriptions of the most interesting objects of nature and art ; the history of men and animals, in a state of health or disease ; and practical hints respecting the arts and manufactures, both familiar and commercial ; illustrated with numerous engravings and cuts ; in five volumes ; volume I[-V]

Author(s):
Willich, A. F. M. (Anthony Florian Madinger)
Publication:
Philadelphia : Published by William Young Birch, and Abraham Small, no. 17, South Second-Street : and T. & J. Swords, New-York ; Robert Carr, printer, 1803[-1804]
Subject(s):
Technology
Housekeeping
Medicine

32. The domestic encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of facts, and useful knowledge: comprehending a concise view of the latest discoveries, inventions, and improvements ; chiefly applicable to rural and domestic economy ; together with descriptions of the most interesting objects of nature and art ; the history of men and animals, in a state of health or disease ; and practical hints respecting the arts and manufactures, both familiar and commercial ; illustrated with numerous engravings and cuts ; in five volumes ; volume I[-V (Volume 1)

Author(s):
Willich, A. F. M. (Anthony Florian Madinger)
Publication:
Philadelphia : Published by William Young Birch, and Abraham Small, no. 17, South Second-Street : and T. & J. Swords, New-York ; Robert Carr, printer, 1803[-1804]
Subject(s):
Technology
Housekeeping
Medicine

33. The domestic encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of facts, and useful knowledge: comprehending a concise view of the latest discoveries, inventions, and improvements ; chiefly applicable to rural and domestic economy ; together with descriptions of the most interesting objects of nature and art ; the history of men and animals, in a state of health or disease ; and practical hints respecting the arts and manufactures, both familiar and commercial ; illustrated with numerous engravings and cuts ; in five volumes ; volume I[-V (Volume 2)

Author(s):
Willich, A. F. M. (Anthony Florian Madinger)
Publication:
Philadelphia : Published by William Young Birch, and Abraham Small, no. 17, South Second-Street : and T. & J. Swords, New-York ; Robert Carr, printer, 1803[-1804]
Subject(s):
Technology
Housekeeping
Medicine

34. The domestic encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of facts, and useful knowledge: comprehending a concise view of the latest discoveries, inventions, and improvements ; chiefly applicable to rural and domestic economy ; together with descriptions of the most interesting objects of nature and art ; the history of men and animals, in a state of health or disease ; and practical hints respecting the arts and manufactures, both familiar and commercial ; illustrated with numerous engravings and cuts ; in five volumes ; volume I[-V (Volume 3)

Author(s):
Willich, A. F. M. (Anthony Florian Madinger)
Publication:
Philadelphia : Published by William Young Birch, and Abraham Small, no. 17, South Second-Street : and T. & J. Swords, New-York ; Robert Carr, printer, 1803[-1804]
Subject(s):
Technology
Housekeeping
Medicine

38. A narrative of the life and medical discoveries of Samuel Thomson: containing an account of his system of practice, and the manner of curing disease with vegetable medicine, upon a plan entirely new ; to which is prefixed an introduction to his New guide to health, or Botanic family physician ; containing the principles upon which the system is founded, with remarks on fevers, steaming, poison, ect. [sic]

Author(s):
Thomson, Samuel, 1769-1843
Publication:
Columbus, Ohio : Published by Pike, Platt, & Co. Agents ; printed by Martin L. Lewis, 1832
Subject(s):
Medicine
Plants, Medicinal

41. The domestic encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of facts, and useful knowledge: comprehending a concise view of the latest discoveries, inventions, and improvements ; chiefly applicable to rural and domestic economy ; together with descriptions of the most interesting objects of nature and art ; the history of men and animals, in a state of health or disease ; and practical hints respecting the arts and manufactures, both familiar and commercial ; illustrated with numerous engravings and cuts ; in five volumes ; volume I[-V (Volume 4)

Author(s):
Willich, A. F. M. (Anthony Florian Madinger)
Publication:
Philadelphia : Published by William Young Birch, and Abraham Small, no. 17, South Second-Street : and T. & J. Swords, New-York ; Robert Carr, printer, 1803[-1804]
Subject(s):
Technology
Housekeeping
Medicine

42. The domestic encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of facts, and useful knowledge: comprehending a concise view of the latest discoveries, inventions, and improvements ; chiefly applicable to rural and domestic economy ; together with descriptions of the most interesting objects of nature and art ; the history of men and animals, in a state of health or disease ; and practical hints respecting the arts and manufactures, both familiar and commercial ; illustrated with numerous engravings and cuts ; in five volumes ; volume I[-V (Volume 5)

Author(s):
Willich, A. F. M. (Anthony Florian Madinger)
Publication:
Philadelphia : Published by William Young Birch, and Abraham Small, no. 17, South Second-Street : and T. & J. Swords, New-York ; Robert Carr, printer, 1803[-1804]
Subject(s):
Technology
Housekeeping
Medicine

44. The American domestick medicine, or, Medical admonisher: containing some account of anatomy, the senses, diseases, casualties ; a dispensatory, and glossary ; in which the observations, and remedies, are adapted to the diseases, &c. of the United States ; designed for the use of families

Author(s):
Jameson, Horatio G. (Horatio Gates), 1778-1855
Publication:
Baltimore : Published by the author ; John D. Toy, printer, 1818
Subject(s):
Medicine

46. Curiosities of medical experience

Author(s):
Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon), 1782-1862
Publication:
Philadelphia : Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1838
Subject(s):
Disease
Medicine

53. 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 : Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1836
Subject(s):
Medicine

54. The philosophy of natural history

Author(s):
Smellie, William, 1740-1795
Publication:
Dover, N.H. : Published by Thomas & Tappan, & Samuel Bragg, Jun., sold by them at their respective book stores in Portsmouth and Dover ; by Isaiah Thomas , Jun. in Worcester ; by Wright, Goodenow and Stockwell, in Boston, and Troy, N.Y., 1808
Subject(s):
Natural History

55. Medical admonitions to families: respecting the preservation of health, and the treatment of the sick : also, a table of symptoms, serving to point out the degree of danger, and, to distinguish one disease from another : with Observations on the improper indulgence of children, &c

Author(s):
Parkinson, James, 1755-1824
Publication:
Portsmouth, New-Hampshire : Printed for Charles Peirce, by N. S. & W. Peirce, 1803
Subject(s):
Therapeutics
Hygiene
Child Rearing

61. The philosophy of mesmerism, or animal magnetism: being a compilation of facts ascertained by experience, and drawn from the writings of the most celebrated magnetisers in Europe and America : intended to facilitate the honest inquirer after truth, and promote the happiness of mankind, by diffusing the knowledge of one of nature's wisest laws and most benevolent institutions

Author(s):
Dickerson, K.
Publication:
Concord, N. H. : Morrill, Silsby & Co., 1843
Subject(s):
Hypnosis

69. Epidemic cholera

Author(s):
Ridgely, William S.
Publication:
Cincinnati : J.D. Thorpe, 1849
Subject(s):
Cholera

70. The cholera, no judgment!: The efficacy, philosophy, and practical tendency of the prayer by the Archbishop of Canterbury, ordered to be used during the prevalence of cholera, examined in a letter, addressed to the right hon. the Earl of Carlisle

Publication:
London : Aylott & Jones, 1849
Subject(s):
Cholera
Religion and Medicine
Faith Healing
England
Sumner, John Bird, 1780-1862.
Howard, George, Earl of Carlisle, 1773-1848.

75. Plain and practical observations upon diseases resulting from worms: with remarks upon the utility of Swaim's vermifuge in cholera morbus, dysentery, and in all other diseases originating in debility of the digestive organs

Author(s):
Swaim, Wm. (William)
Publication:
Philadelphia : T. K. & P. G. Collins, Printers, 1843
Subject(s):
Helminthiasis -- drug therapy
Digestive System Diseases -- drug therapy
Nonprescription Drugs

78. An account of the extraordinary abstinence of Ann Moor, of Tutbury, Staffordshire: who has, for more than two years, lived entirely without food : giving the particulars of her life to the present time, an account of the investigation instituted on the occasion, and observations on the letters of some medical men who attended it : also other similar cases of abstinence, etc

Publication:
Philadelphia : Published by Joseph Sharpless ..., 1810
Subject(s):
Fasting
Moore, Ann (Pegg)

79. Practical horse farrier, or, The traveller's pocket companion: shewing the best method to preserve the horse in health; and likewise the cure of the most prominent diseases to which this noble animal is subject, in the United States of America : the whole being the result of nearly forty years' experience, with an extensive practice

Author(s):
Carver, William, approximately 1754-1840
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed and published by M'Carty & Davis ..., 1820
Subject(s):
Horse Diseases

80. Elements of chemistry

Author(s):
Chaptal, Jean-Antoine-Claude, comte de Chanteloup, 1756-1832
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by John Bioren, for John Conrad, & Co. [and 2 others], 1801
Subject(s):
Chemistry

81. A treatise on the human teeth: concisely explaining their structure, and cause of decay : to which is added, the most beneficial and effectual method of treating all disorders incidental to the teeth and gums ; with directions for their judicious extraction, and proper mode of preservation : interspersed with observations

Author(s):
Skinner, R. C. (Richard Cortland), -approximately 1834
Publication:
New-York : Printed by Johnson & Stryker ..., for the author, 1801
Subject(s):
Dentistry
Tooth Diseases

82. A remedy and prevention for the cholera morbus, pointing out the properties of oils and acids, and their good effects in this disease. Illustrated by the remarks of a physician; and also some well-authenticated cures, medical correspondence, &c., &c

Author(s):
Boys, S.
Publication:
London : Printed for the author by Vize Slater, 1832
Subject(s):
Cholera -- therapy
Rumex
Plant Preparations -- therapeutic use
Phytotherapy

83. On cholera

Author(s):
Cartwright, Samuel A., of Natchez
Publication:
[New Orleans?], 1849
Subject(s):
Cholera -- therapy

84. On Asiatic cholera

Author(s):
Chevalier, T. W.
Publication:
London : Howlett & Brimmer, 1831
Subject(s):
Cholera

91. Practical observations on the prevailing epidemic called cholera: with advice to the heads of families and others, as to the precautionary and primary domestic treatment to be used in warding off a threatened attack of, and assisting those already affected by, the epidemic

Author(s):
Keir, James, active 1802-1848
Publication:
Edinburgh : W. F. Watson, 1848
Subject(s):
Cholera -- prevention & control
Cholera -- therapy

94. Hints on the practicability of contracting the extension and greatly diminishing the fatality of the malignant cholera: with practical remarks on the most successful plans of treatment hitherto adopted in this country : in a letter addressed to the Rev. J. Collinson

Author(s):
White, David Blair, 1800-1868
Publication:
Newcastle upon Tyne : E. Mackenzie, Jun., 1832
Subject(s):
Cholera -- therapy
Collinson, John, -1857.

95. Cholera, its nature, cause, treatment, and prevention, clearly and concisely explained: with an appendix, containing practical remarks on fever and dysentery, with which cholera is intimately connected, and frequentlly [sic] combined : being the substance of reports made to the late Government of Poland

Author(s):
Searle, C. (Charles), active 1839
Publication:
London : Printed for S. Highley, 1831
Subject(s):
Cholera

96. The physician: I. The cholera

Author(s):
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)
Publication:
London : Charles Knight, 1832
Subject(s):
Cholera

98. Caution to the public: or, Hints upon the nature of scarlet fever, designed to shew, that this disease arises from a peculiar and absolute virus, and is specifically infectious in its mildest as well as in its most malignant form; including practical remarks upon Asiatic cholera, and other epidemics

Author(s):
Cooke, William, 1785-1873
Publication:
London, Highley, 1831
Subject(s):
Scarlet Fever -- transmission
Cholera

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