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The Indian physician : containing a new system of practice founded on medical plants, together with a description of their properties, localities, and method of using and preparing them : a treatise on the causes and symptoms of diseases, which are incident to human nature, with a safe and sovereign cure for them, and the mode of treatment, in any stage of disease for the use of families and practitioners of medicine / by Jonas Rishel.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks RS 164 .R55 1980
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rishel, Jonas, 1788-1865.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Materia medica, Vegetable.
- Therapeutics--Popular works.
- Therapeutics.
- Traditional medicine--United States.
- Traditional medicine.
- Phytotherapy.
- Medicine, Traditional.
- Plants, Medicinal.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Phytotherapy.
- Medicine, Traditional.
- Plants, Medicinal.
- Genre:
- Popular works.
- Physical Description:
- 132 pages ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Columbus] : Ohio State University Libraries Publications Committee, ©1980.
- Summary:
- "A glimpse of the medical problems people faced at that time and the primitive, but often practical, methods they used to deal with them."--Introduction.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: New Berlin, Pa. : J. Miller, 1828.
- OCLC:
- 7837877
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