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1002. 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

Author(s):
Thomson, Samuel, 1769-1843
Publication:
[Columbus, Ohio] : Published by Jarvis Pike, & Co., general agents ; Columbus, Ohio, 1835
Subject(s):
Phytotherapy

1005. The medical assistant: a large and valuable family work, containing in plain and simple language the nature and treatment of diseases : much of which has been taken from the most approved family works now in use, while the treatises on the diseases peculiar to this climate have been prepared expressly for this work : it also contains a materia medica, a dispensatory, nurse's guide and diet for sick : a glossary is attached to explain the medical terms used in the book

Author(s):
Horr, D. G. M.
Publication:
Nashville : J.G. Shepard, printer, 1848
Subject(s):
Medicine

1008. 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

1009. Madame Young's guide to health: her experience and practice for nearly forty years : a true family herbal, wherein is displayed the true properties and medical virtues of all the roots, herbs, &c, indigenous to the United States, and their combination in all the diseases the human body is heir to : also, an explanation of the human body, its liability to injuries through ignorance of its structure : dedicated excusively to her sex

Author(s):
Young Madame (Amelia)
Publication:
Rochester, N.Y. : Strong, 1858
Subject(s):
Phytotherapy
Physiological Phenomena

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