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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Gunn’s new family physician: or home book of health |
| Reference | 107419.O |
| Library | The Library Company of Philadelphia |
| Date | 1867 |
| Author | Gunn, John C |
| Publisher / Printer / Lithographer | Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin |
| Place of Creation | Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Description | Hundredth edition. Metamorphosed by its publishers from "Poor Man's Friend" to the "Home Book of Health", later editions of Gunn included colour illustrations and treatises on anatomy, physiology, hygiene, domestic economy and physical culture. |
| Document Type | Printed Book |
| Theme(s) | Health and Hygiene; Physiology; Botanic Medicine |
| Keywords | family, physician, domestic, disease, symptoms, cure, female complaints, children, nursing, plants, anatomy, hygiene, indigestion, edema, abortion, fever, air, purification, poison, asthma, backache, bronchitis, childbirth, chilblains, cholera, cleanliness, tuberculosis, dysentery, headache, sunstroke, ulcer, water, vaccination |
| Parts of the Body | digestive organs, respiratory system, lungs, liver, back |
| Additional Information | Giving many valuable suggestions for avoiding disease and prolonging life, with plain directions in cases of emergency, and pointing out in familiar language the causes, symptoms, treatment and cure of diseases incident to men, women and children, with the simplest and best remedies; presenting a manual for nursing the sick, and describing minutely the properties and uses of hundreds of well-known medicinal plants. /By John C. Gunn, M.D., author of "Gunn's Domestic medicine." With supplementary treatises on anatomy, physiology, and hygiene, on domestic and sanitary economy, and on physical culture and development. Newly illustrated and re-stereotyped. |
| Note | Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Library Company of Philadelphia’s catalogue, and 'An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform', compiled by Christopher Hoolihan. |
| Visual Content | View thumbnails |
| Copyright | The Library Company of Philadelphia |