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Start Over Collections Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920 ✖Remove constraint Collections: Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920 Subjects United States ✖Remove constraint Subjects: United States 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

1. 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

4. The water cure in America: two hundred and twenty cases of various diseases treated with water, by Drs. Wesselhoeft, Shew, Bedortha, Shieferdecker, and others : with cases of domestic practice : notices of the water cure establishments : descriptive catalogue of hydropathic publications, etc. : designed for popular as well as professional reading

Author(s):
Phinney, H. F.
Publication:
New York & London : Wiley and Putnam, 1848
Subject(s):
Hydrotherapy
United States

5. The water cure in America: two hundred and twenty cases of various diseases treated with water by Wesselhoeft, Shew, Bedortha, Shieferdecker, and others : with cases of domestic practice, notices of the water cure establishments, decriptive catalogue of hydropathic publications, etc. : designed for popular as well as professional reading

Author(s):
Phinney, H. F.
Publication:
New York : Wiley and Putnam, 1848
Subject(s):
Hydrotherapy
United States

6. The farmer's materia medica: containing a list of the most useful medicinal vegetables indigenous to the United States, with their qualities : with an appendix, containing some observations on fevers, and symptoms of various diseases, together with many other remarks and observations

Author(s):
Merwin, John C.
Publication:
Watertown [N.Y.] : Printed by W. Woodward, 1825
Subject(s):
Phytotherapy
Materia Medica
Plants, Medicinal
United States

9. Gunn's domestic medicine, or, Poor man's friend, in the hours of affliction, pain and sickness: this book points out, in plain language, free from doctors' terms, the diseases of men, women, and children, and the latest and most approved means used in their cure, and is expressly written for the benefit of families in the western and southern states : it also contains descriptions of the medicinal roots and herbs of the southern and western country, and how they are to be used in the cure of diseases : arranged on a new and simple plan, by which the practice of medicine is reduced to principles of common sense

Author(s):
Gunn, John C.
Publication:
Springfield, Ohio : John M. Gallagher, printer, 1835
Subject(s):
Medicine
Plants, Medicinal
United States

10. Gunn's domestic medicine, or Poor man's friend. Shewing the diseases of men, women and children, and expressly intended for the benefit of families. Containing a description of the medicinal roots and herbs, and how they are to be used in the cure of diseases. Arranged on a new and simple plan

Author(s):
Gunn, John C.
Publication:
Knoxville, T. : Printed by F. S. Heiskell, 1833
Subject(s):
Medicine
Plants, Medicinal
United States

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