The North American Indian doctor, or Nature's method of curing and preventing disease according to the Indians : containing a catechism of anatomy and physiology of between five and six hundred questions, with their correct answers, selected from the best authors in the world, for new beginners, or those who wish to study the science of anatomy. : Also, a treatise on midwifery, with the treatment necessary during pregnancy. : Also materia medica of Indian remedies, or vegetable compounds, in the form of recipes for more that two hundred and fifty diseases, with a description of such plants as are not common / by Robert D. Foster, botanic physician.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foster, Robert D. (Botanic physician)

Contributor:

Smith and Bevin, printer.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Popular.

Indians of North America--Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Ethnobotany.

Ethnobotany--North America.

Ethnobotany.

North America.

Materia medica.

Medicinal plants.

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.

Medicine.

Anatomy.

Physiology.

Obstetrics.

Genre:

Questions and answers.

Physical Description:

154 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm

Other Title:

Nature's method of curing and preventing disease according to the Indians

Place of Publication:

Canton, Ohio: : Printed for the author, by Smith and Bevin, 1838.

Notes:

"Copy right secured according to law."--Title page verso.

"Index."--Page [156].

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Smith copy quarter bound in 19th century cloth with patterned paper over boards.

Cited in:

Checklist Amer. imprints 50367

Morgan, R.P. Ohio, 295

Contains:

Treatise on midwifery with the treatment necessary during pregnancy.

Materia medica of Indian remedies.

OCLC:

191241781