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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 Genre Popular Works ✖Remove constraint Genre: Popular Works

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

2. 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. 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

9. Medicina Britannica, or A treatise on such physical plants, as are generally to be found in the fields or gardens in Great-Britain: containing a particular account of their nature, virtues, and uses ; together with the observations of the most learned physicians, as well ancient as modern, communicated to the late ingenious Mr. Ray, and the learned Dr. Sim. Pauli ; adapted more especially to the occasions of those, whose condition or situation of life deprives them, in a great measure, of the helps of the learned

Author(s):
Short, Thomas, 1690?-1772
Publication:
[Philadelphia] : London printed : Philadelphia re-printed, and sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, at the post-office, in Market-Street, MDCCLI [1751]
Subject(s):
Botany
Plants, Medicinal
Phytotherapy

10. 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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