A new and complete American medical family herbal : wherein is displayed the true properties and medical virtues of the plants, indigenous to the United States of America : together with Lewis' secret remedy, newly discovered, which has been found infallible in the cure of that dreadful disease hydrophobia, produced by the bite of a mad dog : being the result of more than thirty years experienced practice of the author, while a prisoner, towards the close of the last war, among the Creek Indians, and his travels through the Southern States, whilst making botanic discoveries on the real medical virtues of our indigenous plants, wherein he has made known all his new discoveries, with the method how to use them, in the cure of most diseases incident to the human body : adapted for the benefits of masters and mistresses of families, and for the community at large, of our United, free and independent States of America / by Samuel Henry ; with an appendix of many choice medical secrets, never made known to the world before.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henry, Samuel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Materia medica, Vegetable.

Herbs--Therapeutic use.

Herbs.

Botany--United States.

Botany.

United States.

Genre:

Subscription lists (Publishing) -- New York (State) -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Bartram Memorial Library Committee (bookplate) (donor)

Yerger, Henry N., bookbinder (stamp, Philadelphia, PA)

Physical Description:

vi pages, 7 unnumbered pages-393 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New-York : Published by Samuel Henry, 1814.

Notes:

Includes index.

Subscribers' lists on page [391]-393.

Local Notes:

Imperfect: t.p. damaged with some loss of text.

Cited in:

Sabin 31412

OCLC:

166603107