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Start Over Collections Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920 ✖Remove constraint Collections: Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920 Subjects Medicine ✖Remove constraint Subjects: Medicine Languages English ✖Remove constraint Languages: English Genre Popular Works ✖Remove constraint Genre: Popular Works

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

Author(s):
Gunn, John C.
Publication:
Cincinnati : Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 1867
Subject(s):
Medicine

7. 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

Author(s):
Ewell, James, 1773-1832
Publication:
Philadelphia : C. Desilver, 1867
Subject(s):
Medicine

9. 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

Author(s):
Carlin, William, 1780-1870
Publication:
Toledo, O. : Locke, 1881
Subject(s):
Medicine
Cooking
Animal Husbandry

11. 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

Author(s):
Hale, Edwin M. (Edwin Moses), 1829-1899
Publication:
Chicago : Hill, Huling, 1884
Subject(s):
Medicine
Veterinary Medicine

15. The family doctor

Author(s):
Hamlin, B.
Publication:
[California : Lemoore Tulare Co., 1880]
Subject(s):
Medicine

17. 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

18. 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

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