1866 Family Physician Guide Botanical Medicine Remedies Herbs Potions Homeopathy

1866 Family Physician Guide Botanical Medicine Remedies Herbs Potions Homeopathy

 

A very rare 19^th-century domestic medicinal treatise. In addition to a series of lectures written by Dr. James Wilson, this fascinating book of medicine describes a myriad of diseases and ailments along with the corresponding recipe for the needed remedy for each. Notable contents include:

• Laudanum as a cure for hiccups
• “Hooping Cough”
• Remedies for poisons
• Preparing hair dye
• Lecture on nervous diseases and phrenology
• Warnings that sexual immorality and ‘solitary vice’ lead to many diseases and the collapse of society
• Dangers of alcohol and tobacco usage

 

Item number: #40205

Price: $499

 

WILSON, Dr. J.

 

The family companion and physician. On reformed botanical principles, treating of the symptoms and remedies of acute diseases in men, women, and children; together with a short lecture on the laws of the many nervous diseases to which we are subject. Also, numerous preparations, valuable to every family.

 

Rochester, New York: Daily Democrat Steam Printing House, 1866.

 

Details:

• Collation: Complete
  • v, [6]-120
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
  • Brown cloth
  • Blindstamped, “Family Companion and Physician. Dr. J. Wilson.”
• Size: ~6in X 4in (15cm x 10cm)

 

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