The home doctor, or, Family manual
Subtitle: giving the causes, symptoms, and treatment of diseases, with an account of the system while in health, and rules for preserving that state : appended to which is a complete herb book
By: the whole written for general use by John B. Newman
Contributors: Vivian & Maddocks
Publisher: Vivian & Maddocks
Published: 1864
Place of publication: Stratford [Ont.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
Other titles: The book of herbs, giving descriptions of medical plants, and directions for gathering and preserving them, with a full account of their properties and doses.; Family manual.
Notes: Two pts. in 1 v.: Pt. 2 (The book of herbs) is "intended as an addition to the 'Home doctor' [pt. 1], to form, when both are combined, a book of reference"--p. [iii] (Preface to The book of herbs). Each pt. has own t.p. with imprint: Stratford : Vivian & Co., 1864. T.p of pt. 1: The home doctor, or, Family manual : giving the causes, symptoms, and treatment of diseases, with an account of the system while in health, and rules for preserving that state : appended to which are recipes for making various medicines and articles of diet for the sick room / the whole written for general use by John B. Newman. T.p. of pt. 2: The book of herbs, giving descriptions of medical plants, and directions for gathering and preserving them, with a full account of their properties and doses / the whole written for family use by John B. Newman.

Both pts. originally published separately: New York : Husted, 1847.

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