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204. Medical companion, treating according to the most successful practice, of the diseases to which man is subject: with a description of vegetable medicines, and the manner of preparing and using them : also, a description of roots and herbs : to which is added an essay on hygia, or the art of preserving health and prolonging life

207. Homoeopathic materia medica: being a summary of the curative action of the principal remedial agents employed in the homoeopathic practice : compiled from Hahnemann, Jahr, Boenninghausen, Hull, Teste, and Hempel, and from the clinical provings of Rückert, Herring [i.e. Hering], Vanderburgh, Barlow and other distinguished members of the profession, together with additions, references, and notes

213. The family adviser, or, A plain and modern practice of physic: calculated for the use of families who have not the advantages of a physician, and accommodated to the diseases of America

214. The medical companion: treating, according to the most successful practice, I. The diseases common to warm climates and on ship board. II. Common cases in surgery, as fractures, dislocations, &c. III. The complaints peculiar to women and children. With a dispensatory and glossary. To which are added, a brief anatomy of the human body; an essay on hygeine [sic] or the art of preserving health and prolonging life; an American materia medica, instructing country gentlemen in the very important knowledge of the virtues and doses of our medicinal plants; also, a concise and impartial history of the capture of Washington, and the diseases which sprung from that most deplorable disaster

219. A synopsis of pharmacology: in which the remedial agents, obtained from the three kingdoms of nature, are arranged according to Cleaveland on mineralogy, to Jussieu on botany, and to Cuvier on zoology : designed for the use of the members of the Vermont Academy of Medicine, and also as a manual for the practitioner of medicine

230. 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

233. The American medical guide for the use of families: in two parts : part 1st ; a materia medica ; being a treaties [i.e., treatise] on all the most useful articles used as medicine, including those which are the produce of our own country : part 2d therapeutics, or, the art of curing the various diseases of the human body : to which is added a short description of the constituent parts of the human body

251. A treatise of the materia medica

255. New guide to health, or, Botanic family physician: containing a complete system of practice, upon a plan entirely new ; with a description of the vegetables made use of, and directions for preparing and administering them to cure disease ; to which is added, a description of several cases of disease attended by the author, with the mode of treatment and cure

257. Catalogue of medicinal plants, barks, roots, seeds, flowers, and select powders, with their therapeutic qualities and botanical names: also, pure vegetable extracts, prepared in vacuo, ointments, inspissated juices, essential oils, double distilled and fragrant waters, &c, &c., raised, prepared, and put up in the most careful manner by the United Society of Shakers, at New Lebanon, N.Y

262. The druggist's manual: being a price current of drugs, medicines, paints, dye-stuffs, glass, patent medicines, &c. : with Latin and English synonyms, a German, French, and Spanish catalogue of drugs, tables of specific gravities, &c. &c., and a variety of useful matter

285. The American herbal, or materia medica: wherein the virtues of the mineral, vegetable, and animal productions of North and South America are laid open, so far as they are known ; and their uses in the practice of physic and surgery exhibited ; comprehending an account of a large number of new medical discoveries and improvements, which are compiled from the best authorities