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4. Gunn's new family physician, or, Home book of health: forming a complete household guide, giving many valuable suggestions for avoiding disease and prolonging life, with plain directions in case of energency, and pointing out in familiar language the causes, symptoms, treatment and cure of diseases incident to men, women, and children with the simplest and best remedies : presenting a manual for nursing the sick, and describing minutely the properties and uses of hundreds of well-known medicinal plants : with supplementary treatises on anatomy, physiology, and hygiene, on domestic and sanitary economy, and on physical culture and development

6. The medical companion, or family physician: treating of the diseases of the United States, with their symptoms, cause, 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 hygiene, or the art of preserving health without the aid of medicine, also the nurse's guide

8. Old Doctor Carlin's recipes: being a complete collection of recipes on every known subject, as selected from the mss. of old Doctor William Carlin of Bedford, England : together with additions by the American editor on various subjects, embracing also a department for the household of most thoroughly tried recipes, a treatise on bees, a treatise on poultry, etc. : being the latest and most reliable collection of recipes for the farm, the household, the sick room, the kitchen

9. The compendium of health: pertaining to the physical life of man and the animals which serve him, including the horse, ox, sheep, hog, dog, cat, poultry, and birds : embracing anatomy, physiology, and hygiene, the cure and prevention of disease, the peculiar functions and disorders of the maid, wife, mother, and babe, the nursing of children and the sick, medicinal recipes, accidents, injuries, and poisons, the care and improvement of the domestic animals, etc., etc