Herbal, Homeopathic, and Folk Medicine Books for Sale

The following is a continuously edited list of texts related to herbal medicine, homeopathy, and quack doctoring, which I have edited and released. This list will be updated over time as new titles become available.

PRIMITIVE PHYSIC
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An extensive mid 18th century text of folk and herbal medicine.

MAGIC PLANTS
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A short tract detailing the philosophy of natural magic and herbalism.

THE WITCHES' PHARMACOPOEIA
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A very good work on herbal and similar imagery in witch lore.

GUNPOWDER AS A WAR REMEDY
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A WWI homeopathic work of note suggesting the use of small doses of tincture of black powder.

CANADIAN HERBAL
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A combination receipt book for disease and herbal guide.

THE USEFUL FAMILY HERBAL
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A short herbal with a large number of (often odd) recipes.

COUNTERBLAST TO TOBACCO
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A very short tract on the spiritual and physical evils of tobacco, by King James the first.

WEEDS USED AS MEDICINE
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A government bulletin listing several dozen common and noxious medicinal species.

VALUABLE HERBAL PRESCRIPTIONS
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A homeopathic work listing some late 19th century remedies and various species used therein.

ASTROLOGICAL PHYSICIAN
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A text that claims to treat and diagnose disease by observing astrology.

THE TREE OF LIFE
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Carey's utopian guide to better living, likening the spiritual and then-scientific.

HYPNOTISM
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A DeLaurence work on mesmerism and hypnotism along with their medical applications. Pure Victorianism! 

THE FAMILY NURSE
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An excellent manuscript covering herbal remedies, ointment crafting, poisons, and more.

THE SECRETS OF ANIMAL MAGNETISM
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A work on mesmerism and clairvoyance that partially relates them to medical applications.

THE INCUBUS
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A work on sleep paralysis which also describes herbal remedies, demonic folklore, and other subtopics.

REMEDIAL USES OF HYPNOTISM
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An interesting little essay on the medical application of hypnotism.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM
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A pro-hypnotism, anti-mesmerism manuscript, with some amusingly dated opinions of the use of the former.

MIND AND BODY
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A treatment of hypnotism, faith healing, and the general history of alternative medicine.

THE FAMILY COMPANION AND PHYSICIAN
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A collection of diseases, cures, preparations, and a lecture on moral ills.

THE LAW OF NATURAL HEALING
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A work speaking of autosuggestion and its therapeutic usages, some still accepted today.

HYPNOTISM, PERSONAL MAGNETISM, ETC
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A long-titled booklet of alternative medicine stressing dietary change, exercises, and hypnosis.

A TREATISE ON ANIMAL MAGNETISM
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A tract on Mesmerism and magnetic bathing, and its various anecdotal claims of efficacy.

AMERICAN MEDICINAL FLOWERS AND FRUITS
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A short field guide to some medically active species of North America and their usage.

AMERICAN MEDICINAL HERBS AND LEAVES
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A short field guide to more medically active species. Fully illustrated.

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF FLOWERS, TREES, FRUITS, AND PLANTS
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A lengthy collection of botanical folklore, often Roman, Norse, Arthurian, or European Victorian.

FIFTEEN LECTURES ON MEDICAL BOTANY
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A series of entries on the use of botanicals in medicine, the dangers of antimony and mercury, and plenty of religious allusions.

JACOBS ROD
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A work on dowsing that mentions energy healing and homeopathy. Half translated from Baritel.

OCCULT FAMILY PHYSICIAN
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An excellent, 307 page work on herbs, medical recipes, homeopathy, and some social tracts, all compiled.

THE INDIGENOUS DRUGS OF INDIA
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An intermediate length work of anthropology compiling some of the materials and recipes available in mid 19th century Indian bazaars as medicine.

FRAYS GOLDEN RECIPES
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A booklet containing various herbal remedies, lifestyle advice, and nutrition tips.

FOLK MEDICINE: A COLLECTION
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My full length collection of materials involving herbal medicine, folk cures, homeopathic remedies, and more.

CURES; THE STORY OF CURES THAT FAILED
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A fascinating look at quackery, leechcraft, and fad medicine, with a cautionary tale about spiritual placebos.

AYURVEDA: OR THE HINDU SYSTEM OF MEDICAL SCIENCE
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A short work which describes the basic materia medica, some recipes, and theoretical categories within Ayurvedic practice.

PRAYER AND THE HEALING OF DISEASE
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A short tract mainly opposing faith healing, giving scriptural examples.

SLACKS HERBAL
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A Thompsonian work with a full materia medica, specific recipes for various pills, ointments, etc, and a dietary section.

THE OLD ROOT AND HERB DOCTOR
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A short Thompsonian work importantly including poisons and their antidotes, with allusions to "Native" tribes as a marketing gimmick.

THE PRINCIPLES OF OCCULT HEALING
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A work of Theosophy detailing the advance of "drugless healing" and the coming era of miraculous healings foretold by Blavatsky.

MEDICAL FASHIONS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
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A little work detailing some of the evolution of medicine through the 1800s. An invaluable comparison to the current era of magical cloth squares and pseudoscientific lockdowns.

PARACELSUS AND HIS INFLUENCE ON CHEMISTRY AND MEDICINE
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A little text about Paracelsus, his character, his de facto invention of premodern chemistry, and his involvement with herbal materia medica, etc.

A TREATISE ON ACUPUNCTURATION
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A short and early work detailing the basic premise of acupuncture, cupping, and some medical anecdotes.

OUTLINES OF GREEK AND ROMAN MEDICINE
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A collection of major figures, practices, and ideas, from Rome and Greece from antiquity through the middle ages.

THE SANITARY CODE OF THE PENTATEUCH
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A work laying out the various dietary, sanitary, and similar regulations and customs of the ancient Jews.

THE DIVINE ORIGIN AND CRAFT OF THE HERBALIST
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A work comparing religious rituals to herbal medicine in Rome, Egypt, the Islamic World, Babylon, and more.

MEDIEVAL MEDICINE
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A treatment of surgical and herbal lore from the Middle Ages, especially about Salerno, Montpellier, and the rise of Benedictine hospitals.

TAYLORS HERBAL
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A short work from the dawn of the era of organic chemistry listing various plant species and their curative effects.

A PLEA FOR BOTANIC MEDICINE
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A lengthy work detailing Thomsonian medicine.

BOTANIC MATERIA MEDICA
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An encyclopedic list of many medicinal herbal remedies and their healing categories.

AN EPITOME OF THE HOMEOPATHIC HEALING ART
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An exhaustive list of medical conditions and homeopathic treatments, with inclusions on various medicines and their usages generally.

THE USE OF BATHING IN MEDICINE
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A work exploring ancient and modern usages of saunas, herbal baths, cold baths, and Galenism.

Herbal and Homeopathic Works: New Category Forthcoming

I am pleased to say I finally obtained enough material to begin rendering a series of works to print which will culminate in an entirely new category of literature which, after they are edited, will be listed on this blog; specifically, herbals, homeopathy, and similar works related to folk medicine and similar topics. Some of the titles are hereby listed:

Weeds Used in Medicine (1917)- An interesting and partly illustrated basic herbal.
South Sea Herbal (1715)- A short herbal with many illustrations.
The Treatment of Disease (1886)- An early scientific medical tract.
A Brief Treatise on Various Ailments (1890)- A list of diseases and their herbal remedies.
The Canadian Herbal (1851)- A longer medical tract with various remedies.
Dr Chases' Recipes (1866)- Remedies, herbs, quack medicine, and other material.
Occult Science in Medicine (1893)- Alchemy, astronomy, medicine, and more.
On Snake Bites and their Antidotes (1862)- An article on the obvious from the transactions of the philosophical society of New South Wales.

There are a half dozen other, much longer, works as well that I have acquired for release.