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THE COMPLETE HERBALIST OR THE PEOPLE THEIR OWN PHYSICIANS BY THE USE OF NATURE'S REMEDIES CONDITION & DESCRIPTION: This book - Published by the Author, Jersey City, N. J. 1875 . The Complete Herbalist; or, the People their own Physicians, by the use of Nature's Remedies ; describing the Great Curative Properties found in the Herbal Kingdom . A New and Plain system of Hygienic Principles. Together with Comprehensive Essays on Sexual Philosophy, Marriage, Divorce, etc. By Dr. O. Phelps Brown . Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by Dr. O. Phelps Brown, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. Spine sunned. Brown hard cover. Pencil writing on front free end paper from 1892. Wonderful 504 pages including huge index, in two parts. The first part is an extensive herbal describing plants and their uses with black & white illustrations. The second is a list of diseases and their treatment, including ointments, salves and medical devices available from the author along with detailed advice on all aspects of life including bridal tours and child rearing. Inside of the book you can find Standard Herbal Remedies, Standard Fluid Extracts , and much more. Some of the areas covered in this book are issues that we can relate to in the 21st Century. This book is an original 1875 EDITION! In the following pages in this book will be found a variety of recipes, applicable to many diseases and afflictions for which symptomatic treatment is all that is required. They will be found to be very valuable for domestic treatment. They are not all strictly herbal, but essentially eclectic, so as to be easily prepared and the ingredients readily procured. Nothing capable of harm is, however, admitted, the few mineral substances that are prescribed being only inserted for therapeutic effects, in consequence of their vegetable analogues being hard to procure or difficult to prepare. Availability was studied more than scientific arrangement, though the merit of each is retained. For handy recipes, tfore, the following are sufficiently diversified for a wide range of application. To give you a better idea about this interesting book, we write the contents , so you can see what the book is about and how much information the book holds . In this book the author describing the Great Curative Properties found in the Herbal Kingdom , and much, much more. We hope you will take few moments to look at the listing to find what you looking for, if you find some information and you are interested BID EARLY TO WIN! NO RESERVE! Thank you very much for looking at our listing and please leave a positive feedback for us. GOOD LUCK BIDDING! The use of medicine is no doubt coincident with the History of the Human Race; but writers generally agree that medicine first became a profession among the Egyptians. The priests of the earlier nations were the practitioners of the Healing Art, but it does not seem that women were excluded from the right of administering medicine for the purpose of healing the sick, since mention is made of a certain Queen Isis, who became greatly celebrated among them, and was worshipped as a "GODDESS OF HEALTH." Although the practitioners among the Egyptians, Assyrians, and Jews were in the habit of employing incantations, which, of course, produced their good and bad impressions through the medium of the imagination, yet their efficiency in curing diseases was mainly due to their knowledge of the medicinal virtues of many of the vegetable products of Nature. They seemed to look up as high as the stars to know the reason of the operation of the Herbs in the various affections of the human race. About three hundred years before the Christian era, the Ptolemies founded a medical school in Alexandria, Egypt. The most famous of the professors were ERASISTRATUS and HEROPHILUS, who dissected the bodies of criminals obtained from government. They opposed bleeding and violent remedies, tru... read more

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