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 /

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Author / Creator:Henry, Samuel, active 1814.
Imprint:New-York : Published by Samuel Henry, 1814.
Description:393, [1] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12638609
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Provenance:Copy 1. Former owner's light annotations and corrections in ink and pencil throughout.
Copy 1. Extra-illustration of flower in pencil on page 51.
Copy 1. Circular purple stamp on title page and page 50: Massachusetts College of Pharmacy Library.
Copy 1. Binding: Modern quarter calf and zebra marbled paper over boards; illustrated binders ticket on back paste-down.
Notes:Includes index.
Subscribers' lists on page [391]-393.
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Call Number: RS164.H4 1814
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