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1. 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

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

4. 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

6. Vegetable materia medica of the United States, or, Medical botany: containing a botanical, general, and medical history, of medicinal plants indigenous to the United States ; illustrated by coloured engravings, made after original drawings from nature, done by the author

10. 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]