[Rarebooks] FS: THE AMERICAN BOTANIST, 1824: A fascinating list of early American recipes and cures including the use of bear oil among pregnant Native Americans, etc. Price Reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:   Was $1000,  Now  $800

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. Volume 2, pp. 123-177, presents cures and treatments, 
followed by indexes for both books. The appendix, pp. 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. (#010339)        $800.00

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