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 ... / by Samuel Henry ... ; with an appendix, of many choice medical secrets, never made known to the world before.

  • Henry, Samuel.
Date:
1814
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Credit: 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 ... / by Samuel Henry ... ; with an appendix, of many choice medical secrets, never made known to the world before. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    District of'New-York, ss. • _ . 4l BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the fifth day of May, in the thirty-eielnh vear of the Independence of the United States ot t s America, Samuel Henryj of the said Patriot, has deposited in this 0ff1Ce the title of a Book the right whereof he claims as author in the words following to wit: A NEW COMPLETE AMERICAN MEDICAL FAMILY HERBAL, wherein is rlisnlave'dthe 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 Jog. . ... Being the result or 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 travel* tliro-ieh the Southern States, whilst making botanic discoveries on the real Medical vir- tues of our indigenous plants, wherein he has made, known all his new discoveries, with the method how to use them, in the cure of most diseases incident to the human body. Adapted for the benefit of Masters and Mistresses of families, and for the com- munity at large, of our United, Free and Independent States of America By SamuerHenrv. 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—M i\k an appendix of many choice Medical secrets never made known to the world before. Ero tain felix quara fortuna mea proebet, et facium alios, 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 Aet for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the authors aiid proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned. And al- so to an Act, entitled an Act supplementary to an Act, entitled an Act for the eneour agement 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 be nefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints. THERON RUDD, Clerk of Arew-York District.