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Start Over Subjects Medicine ✖Remove constraint Subjects: Medicine Languages English ✖Remove constraint Languages: English Genre Popular Works ✖Remove constraint Genre: Popular Works Copyright Public domain ✖Remove constraint Copyright: Public domain Dates by Range 1800-1849 ✖Remove constraint Dates by Range: 1800-1849 Publication Year 1847 ✖Remove constraint Publication Year: 1847

1. Family physician: designed to assist heads of families, travellers and seafaring people in discerning, distinguishing, and curing diseases : with directions for the preparation and use of a numerous collection of the best American remedies, together with a large number of valuable receipts for making plasters, ointments, oils, poultices, decoctions, syrups or waters made of herbs, the time of gathering all herbs, the way of drying and keeping the herbs all the year, also the way of making and keeping all kinds of useful compounds made of herbs

Author(s):
Frisbee, John.
Publication:
Boston : J. Frisbee, 1847
Subject(s):
Medicine
Phytotherapy

5. The medical companion, or, Family physician: treating of the diseases of the United States, with their symptoms, causes, cure, and means of prevention : common cases in surgery, as fractures, dislocations, &c. : the management and diseases of women and children : a dispensatory, for preparing family medicines, and a glossary explaining technical terms : to which are added a brief anatomy and physiology of the human body showing, on rational principles, the cause and cure of diseases : an essay on hygieine [sic], or the art of preserving health without the aid of medicine : an American materia medica, pointing out the virtues and doses of our medicinal plants : also, the nurse's guide

Author(s):
Ewell, James, 1773-1832
Publication:
Philadelphia : Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1847
Subject(s):
Medicine

7. The house surgeon and physician: designed to assist heads of families, travellers, and sea-faring people in discerning, distinguishing, and curing diseases : with concise directions for the preparation and use of a numerous collection of the best American remedies, together with many of the most approved, from the shop of the apothecary : all in plain English

Author(s):
Hand, William M.
Publication:
Hartford : Andrus, 1847
Subject(s):
Medicine