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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The American Vegetable Practice, of a New and Improved Guide to Health, Designed for the Use of Families |
| Reference | 74748.O |
| Library | The Library Company of Philadelphia |
| Date | 1841 |
| Author | Mattson, M. |
| Publisher / Printer / Lithographer | Hale, Daniel L. |
| Place of Creation | Boston |
| Description | First edition. Mattson worked with Thomson for two years on the revision of The New Guide to Health, then broke away with his own much more expensively illustrated guide. |
| Document Type | Printed Book |
| Theme(s) | Physiology; Health and Hygiene; Women's Health; Children's Health; Surgery and General Practice; Botanic Medicine |
| Keywords | anatomy, botany, disease, medicine, pharmacology, physician, pathology, childbirth, fever, cramp, pain, diarrhoea, faintness, edema, blood, hysteria, jaundice, teething, vomiting, water |
| Parts of the Body | bones, digestive organs, lungs, heart, veins, skin, teeth, reproductive organs |
| Additional Information | In addition to wood-gravings illustrating the parts on anatomy and midwifery, the text is accompanied by twenty-six plates - twenty-four of which are chromolithographs designed by Caroline Neagus, of Boston. Morris Mattson is listed as a physician in the Boston city directories from 1842 through 1862. |
| 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. |
| Copyright | The Library Company of Philadelphia |