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Start Over Collections Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920 ✖Remove constraint Collections: Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920 Subjects Phytotherapy ✖Remove constraint Subjects: Phytotherapy Subjects Plants, Medicinal ✖Remove constraint Subjects: Plants, Medicinal Languages English ✖Remove constraint Languages: English Dates by Range 1800-1849 ✖Remove constraint Dates by Range: 1800-1849

1. The family instructor, or Guide to health: containing the names and description of the most useful herbs and plants that are now in use, with their medicinal qualities annexed : also, a treatise on many of the lingering diseases to which mankind are subject, with new and plain directions respecting the management of the same : with a large list of recipes, which have been carefully selected from Indian prescriptions, and from those who were cured by the same after every other remedy had failed

Author(s):
Bagley, George K.
Publication:
[Montpelier, Vt.] : Published for the Author, 1848
Subject(s):
Phytotherapy
Medicine
Plants, Medicinal

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

4. Vegetable materia medica of the United States, or, Medical botany: containing a botanical, general, and medical history, of medicinal plants indigenous to the United States ; illustrated by coloured engravings, made after original drawings from nature, done by the author

Author(s):
Barton, William P. C. (William Paul Crillon), 1786-1856
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed and published by M. Carey & Son, 1817-1818 [i.e. 1817-1819]
Subject(s):
Plants, Medicinal
Phytotherapy
United States

6. An inaugural dissertation on digitalis purpurea, or fox-glove: and its use in some diseases : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost ; the trustees & medical faculty, of the University of Pennsylvania, on the thirty-first of May 1800, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine

Author(s):
Moore, John, of Pennsylvania
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Way & Groff, no. 48, North Third-Street, 1800
Subject(s):
Digitalis
Plants, Medicinal
Phytotherapy

9. The first edition of Steward's healing art: corrected and improved by the original hand : to which he has added all his late improvements and new discoveries, both in physick and surgery, from the year 1812 to the year 1826, including his whole system upon physick and surgery : to which he has added, A concise herbal, containing a full description of herbs, roots, barks, and plants, both in their simple and compound use, with a description of their soils and the countries where they are generally found

Author(s):
Steward, William, 1765-1845
Publication:
Saco, Me. : Printed by Putnam & Blake, 1827
Subject(s):
Phytotherapy
Plants, Medicinal

12. 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

16. American medical botany: being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings

Author(s):
Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879
Publication:
Boston : Published by Cummings and Hilliard, at the Boston Bookstore, no. 1, Cornhill, 1817[-1820]
Subject(s):
Plants, Medicinal
Phytotherapy
United States

17. American medical botany: being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings (Volume 1)

Author(s):
Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879
Publication:
Boston : Published by Cummings and Hilliard, at the Boston Bookstore, no. 1, Cornhill, 1817[-1820]
Subject(s):
Plants, Medicinal
Phytotherapy
United States

18. American medical botany: being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings (Volume 2)

Author(s):
Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879
Publication:
Boston : Published by Cummings and Hilliard, at the Boston Bookstore, no. 1, Cornhill, 1817[-1820]
Subject(s):
Plants, Medicinal
Phytotherapy
United States

19. American medical botany: being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings (Volume 3)

Author(s):
Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879
Publication:
Boston : Published by Cummings and Hilliard, at the Boston Bookstore, no. 1, Cornhill, 1817[-1820]
Subject(s):
Plants, Medicinal
Phytotherapy
United States

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