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Start Over Collections Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920 ✖Remove constraint Collections: Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920 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. 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

6. 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

10. 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

12. 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

14. The botanist & physician: containing a description of the principal active medicinal plants found in the middle and northern states of America, with directions relative to their preparation, administration & use in the cure of diseases : to which is prefixed, an outline of the Linnaean system of botany, intended as an introduction and glossary to the work : all designed for the use of families and the young student in botany

Author(s):
Harlow, Samuel.
Publication:
Kingston, N. Y. : Printed by William Culley, 1831
Subject(s):
Botany
Plants, Medicinal
United States

17. 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

20. 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

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