Gunn's New family physician, or, Home book of health : forming a complete household guide : giving many valuable suggestions for avoiding disease and prolonging life, with plain directions in case of emergency, and pointing out in familiar language the causes, symptoms, treatment and cure of diseases incident to men, women and children, with the simplest and best remedies : presenting a manual for nursing the sick, and describing minutely the properties and uses of hundreds of well-known medicinal plants / by John C. Gunn, M.D. ; with supplementary treatises on anatomy, physiology, and hygiene, on domestic and sanitary economy, and on physical culture and development ; newly illustrated and re-stereotyped.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gunn, John C.

Contributor:

Robert Frost Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Popular.

Medicinal plants.

Genre:

Publishers' advertisements -- Ohio -- Cincinnati -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)

Thomas, Giles W. (stamp) (Frost Collection copy)

Dimambro, Brian (label) (Frost Collection copy)

Physical Description:

1218 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portrait ; 24 cm

Edition:

Hundreth edition, revised and enlarged.

Other Title:

Gunn's new family physician

Home book of health

Place of Publication:

Cincinnati : Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 1866.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.

Frost Collection copy has stamps ("GILES W. THOMAS") on p. 5 and back free endpaper; bookseller's label ("International Book Sales Brian Dimambro Portsmouth, NH") on back pastedown.

Frost Collection copy has [6] p. of publisher's advertisement bound in at end of volume.

Frost Collection copy has small colored illustration of a deer's head affixed to front pastedown.

OCLC:

683260162