A new and complete American medical family herbal, wherein, is displayed the true properties and medical virtues of the plants, indigenous to the United States of America: together with Lewis' secret remedy, newly discovered, which has been found infallible in the cure of that dreadful disease hydrophobia; produced by the bite of a mad dog. Being the result of more than thirty years experienced practice of the author, while a prisoner, towards the close of the last war, among the Creek Indians; and his travels through the southern states, whilst making botanic discoveries. By Samuel Henry, botanist, one of the members of the late College of Physicians and Surgeons, and of the Medical Society of the city and county of New-York. With an appendix, of many choice medical secrets, never made known to the world before.

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Title A new and complete American medical family herbal, wherein, is displayed the true properties and medical virtues of the plants, indigenous to the United States of America: together with Lewis' secret remedy, newly discovered, which has been found infallible in the cure of that dreadful disease hydrophobia; produced by the bite of a mad dog. Being the result of more than thirty years experienced practice of the author, while a prisoner, towards the close of the last war, among the Creek Indians; and his travels through the southern states, whilst making botanic discoveries. By Samuel Henry, botanist, one of the members of the late College of Physicians and Surgeons, and of the Medical Society of the city and county of New-York. With an appendix, of many choice medical secrets, never made known to the world before.
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Signed Author By Samuel Henry, botanist, one of the members of the late College of Physicians and Surgeons, and of the Medical Society of the city and county of New-York.
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Volumes 1
Pagination vi, 393
Date of Publication 1814
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Edition Number 1
Date of First Publication 1814
Imprint Published by Samuel Henry, no. 6, Peck-Slip
Colophon E. Low, printer, Catherine-Street
Copyright Statement District of New York BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the fifth day of May, in the thirty-eighth of the Independence of the United States, Samuel Henry, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book whereof he claims as author in the words following, to wit: A new and complete American medical family herbal, wherein, is displayed the true properties and medical virtues of the plants, indigenous to the United States of America: together with Lewis' secret remedy, newly discovered, which has been found infallible in the cure of that dreadful disease hydrophobia; produced by the bite of a mad dog. Being the result of more than thirty years experienced practice of the author, while a prisoner, towards the close of the last war, among the Creek Indians; and his travels through the southern states, whilst making botanic discoveries. By Samuel Henry, botanist, one of the members of the late College of Physicians and Surgeons, and of the Medical Society of the city and county of New-York. With an appendix, of many choice medical secrets, never made known to the world before. Ero tam felix quam fortuna mea proebet, et facium alips ess sic possem. I'll be as happy as my fortune will permit, and make others so, if I can. In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned. And also to an Act, entitled, "an Act supplementary to an Act, entitled an Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints. THERON RUDD, Clerk of New-York District
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Dedicated to Samuel L. Mitchell [i.e., Mitchill], M.D.
"E. Low, printer, Catherine-Street."--on errata slip pasted to p. 393.
Error in paging: p. iv misnumbered v.
"A catalogue of the names of those gentlemen, who have subscribed for the 'New and complete American medical family herbal' ..."--p. [391]-393. The subscription list indicates whether the copies subscribed for were to be "plain" or "coloured."
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
National Library of Medicine (U.S.). Early American medical imprints,
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Henry, Samuel. A new and complete American medical family herbal, wherein, is displayed the true properties and medical virtues of the plants, indigenous to the United States of America: together with Lewis' secret remedy, newly discovered, which has been found infallible in the cure of that dreadful disease hydrophobia; produced by the bite of a mad dog. Being the result of more than thirty years experienced practice of the author, while a prisoner, towards the close of the last war, among the Creek Indians; and his travels through the southern states, whilst making botanic discoveries. By Samuel Henry, botanist, one of the members of the late College of Physicians and Surgeons, and of the Medical Society of the city and county of New-York. With an appendix, of many choice medical secrets, never made known to the world before.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 21346, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/21346. Accessed 2024-11-21. 

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