Gunn's newest family physician : or, Home-book of health: an approved household guide, for avoiding disease and prolonging life, giving clear directions in cases of drowning, poisoning, wounds and other emergencies, with plain instructions for managing the sick-room and nursing the sick; and pointing out the best methods for securing pure air, pure water, and proper drainage for dwellings and premises, and familiarly indicating the causes and symptoms and the requisite treatment for the cure of the diseases incident to men, women, and children, with the simplest and best remedies; more especially those from the vegetable materia medica. Accurate descriptions are given of the forms, properties and uses of hundreds of well-known medicinal plants. Also, separate treatises on anatomy, physiology, and hygiene, on domestic and sanitary economy, and illustrated lessons for physical recreation in swimming, rowing, riding, jumping, etc., with an appendix, containing some 400 tested practical recipes, and remedies for diseases of domestic animals /
by: Gunn, John C.
Published: (1883)
