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This mid-19th century work is an excellent materia medica, more rigorously categorical than many competing editions from the time period, containing an entire list of abbreviations for the usage of species, which are then applied in the work. It contains several hundred different entries- the usages are sometimes archaic, although some terms (such as astringent and stimulant) are still used.

It is a fine example of herbal medicine from the early period in which organic chemistry was leading to the rudimentary standardization of dosage- the work details the difference between tinctures, extracts, and so forth, as well.

Illustrated by Raven Feather Illustrations.

99 pages.

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This fairly long book is a tome of medical and herbal lore which combines multiple distinct elements of literature into one semi-condensed volume. Often, in the 19th century, the Materia Medica was separate from social tracts or only contained herbs and their uses or recipes. This contains all of the above, as well as dietary content, all from the backdrop of the botanic method, which stressed proper living, "natural" remedies, and was altogether an objective improvement on the prior era of mercury based medicine, antimonial injections into wounds, and other pseudo-alchemical snake oil.

It is interesting to note that by this time, while lobelia (formerly heralded as a sort of cure-all) was continued in use for many complaints, it had lost ground against chamomile, st johns wort, artemesia absinthium, and a few other species which were rising in prominence.

Of interest as well here is a short tract against onanism ("self pollution"!) and material involving spiritism.

307 pages.