[Rarebooks] FS: 1824 American Recipes including Native American Treatments, price reduced
Charles Agvent
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Price Reduced!
MONROE, John. THE AMERICAN BOTANIST, AND FAMILY PHYSICIAN ... A LARGE
NUMBER OF INDIAN DISCOVERIES IN THE MEDICAL ART NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED.
Wheelock, Vt: Jonathan Morrison, 1824. First Edition. Compiled by Silas
Gaskill. Two volumes in one, 203 pages, second volume with separate
title page. Contemporary full calf binding with leather spine label. The
first part, (i)-120, provides an alphabetical listing of American plants
and animals with a short description of each one's properties and
medicinal uses. The second volume, pages 123-177, presents cures and
treatments, followed by indexes for both books. The appendix, pages
178-203, is titled, "On the General Causes of Diseases." In his preface
Monroe describes how he learned Indian methods of treating disorders
from a native Indian who had been "bred a physician in the medical
department of the Pennsylvania University." A fascinating list of early
American recipes and cures including the use of bear oil among pregnant
Native Americans; dog oil for burns; earth worms dissolved in sugar for
stiff joints; ginseng for the stomach; milk "sucked from the breast of a
middle aged woman, of good habit, who lives temperately, and uses
moderate exercise" for debility; rattlesnake oil for deafness; and much
more. Sabin 50025; Shaw & Shoemaker 17194. One leaf with long tear in
gutter with no loss; some chipping to margins of other pages. Some
pencil scribbling on the title page and a few other pages. Occasional
stain but generally clean. Joints split but covers are still tight.
Quite Good and scarce. Was $1500.00 Now $1,000.00
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