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Start Over Genre Popular Works ✖Remove constraint Genre: Popular Works Publication Year 1847 ✖Remove constraint Publication Year: <span class="single" data-blrl-single="1847">1847</span>

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

6. The poor man's friend: containing the infallible cure for the black tongue, with its causes and symptoms : also, the only remedy known to prevent the contagion from attacking those in charge of the patient : with the treatment for measles and scarlet fever, and a collection of fifty valuable remedies for various diseases

Author(s):
Richter, W. E.
Publication:
Hagerstown, Md. : Printed at the News Office, 1847
Subject(s):
Typhoid Fever -- therapy
Measles -- therapy
Scarlet Fever -- therapy

7. The lady's own book, or, Female safeguard: containing moral checks to population and a complete practical midwife : it also treats of generation, sterility, impotency, female complaints, the diseases of infants and children, a glossary or medical dictionary, a dispensatory of all the medicines recommended in this work, and many valuable recipes, purely upon reformed medical principles, written in a plain, yet chaste, style, and on moral principles for families and females

Author(s):
Brown, Z. J.
Publication:
Marshall [Michigan] : Statesman Office Print., 1847
Subject(s):
Midwifery
Reproduction
Phytotherapy