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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 Dates by Range 1800-1849 ✖Remove constraint Dates by Range: 1800-1849

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

3. 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

Author(s):
Stearns, Samuel, 1741-1809
Publication:
Walpole [N.H.] Printed by David Carlisle, for Thomas & Thomas, and the author, 1801
Subject(s):
Plants, Medicinal
Medicine, Traditional
Materia Medica
North America
South America

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

10. 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

23. 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

25. The family physician, or Poor man's friend, and married lady's companion: containing a great variety of valuable medical recipes, designed to assist heads of families, travellers and sea-faring people, in curing diseases ; with concise directions for the preparation, and use of a numerous collection of vegetables made use of ; and directions for preparing and administering them to cure diseases ; together with many of the most approved from the shop of the apothecary ; all in plain English

Author(s):
Weyer, A. (Anthony), 1784-1845
Publication:
St. Clairsville, O. : Published by the author ; Horton J. Howard printer, 1831
Subject(s):
Medicine
Plants, Medicinal
Materia Medica
Pharmaceutical Preparations

26. 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

27. 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

28. Das gemeinnützige Haus-Arzeneybuch zur Erkennung und Heilung der meisten in menschlichen Leben vorkommenden Krankheiten: enthaltend eine Sammlung von Mitteln für fast alle Krankheitszufälle denen der menschliche Körper unterworfenist ; nebst einer Beschreibung von dem Gebrauch der vornehmsten Kräuter ; auch viele kunstreiche Stücke

Author(s):
Schmidt, Daniel.
Publication:
Lancaster, Pa. : Gedruckt und zu haben be H.W. Villee, 1829
Subject(s):
Medicine
Phytotherapy
Plants, Medicinal
Materia Medica

30. Gunn's domestic medicine, or Poor man's friend. Shewing the diseases of men, women and children, and expressly intended for the benefit of families. Containing a description of the medicinal roots and herbs, and how they are to be used in the cure of diseases. Arranged on a new and simple plan

Author(s):
Gunn, John C.
Publication:
Knoxville, T. : Printed by F. S. Heiskell, 1833
Subject(s):
Medicine
Plants, Medicinal
United States

31. Gunn's domestic medicine, or, Poor man's friend, in the hours of affliction, pain and sickness: this book points out, in plain language, free from doctors' terms, the diseases of men, women, and children, and the latest and most approved means used in their cure, and is expressly written for the benefit of families in the western and southern states : it also contains descriptions of the medicinal roots and herbs of the southern and western country, and how they are to be used in the cure of diseases : arranged on a new and simple plan, by which the practice of medicine is reduced to principles of common sense

Author(s):
Gunn, John C.
Publication:
Springfield, Ohio : John M. Gallagher, printer, 1835
Subject(s):
Medicine
Plants, Medicinal
United States

33. 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

36. 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

40. Manual of botany, for the Northern and Middle States of America: containing generic and specific descriptions of the indigenous plants and common cultivated exotics, growing north of Virginia ; to which are prefixed, the natural and artificial classes and orders of Linneus ; and the natural orders of Jussieu, with the medicinal properties of each order

Author(s):
Eaton, Amos, 1776-1842
Publication:
Albany : Printed and published by Websters and Skinners, 1822
Subject(s):
Plants, Medicinal
New England
Mid-Atlantic Region

41. A manual of materia medica and pharmacy: comprising a concise description of the articles used in medicine, their physical and chemical properties, the botanical characters of the medicinal plants, and the formulae for the principal officinal preparations of the American, Parisian, London, Dublin, Edinburgh, &c pharmacopoeiae : with observations on the proper mode of combining and administering remedies

Author(s):
Milne-Edwards, H. (Henri), 1800-1885
Publication:
Philadelphia : Carey, Lea & Carey, 1829
Subject(s):
Materia Medica
Plants, Medicinal

49. The medical instructer: containing the symptoms of diseases, and directions for their removal : by the use of Dr. Daniel J. Cobb's highly celebrated and invaluable family medicines ; to which are prefixed, certificates and observations recommendatory of their superiour virtues in the prevention and cure of diseases

Author(s):
Cobb, Daniel J.
Publication:
Warsaw [N.Y.] : J.A. Hadley, printer, 1837
Subject(s):
Phytotherapy
Plants, Medicinal

50. 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

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