Buchans domestic medicine and gunns family physician, strongly recommend exercise as indispensable for curing all manner of diseases of the nervous system, especially hysteria and hypochondria. Gunn s domestic medicine, or, poor mans friend, in the hours of affliction, pain and sickness. This book points out, in plain language, free from doctors terms, the diseases of men, women, and children, and the latest and most approved means used in their cure and is expressly written for the use of families in the western and southern states. Plantation medicine and health care in the old south. Gunns domestic medicine by john c gunn, professor charles. This book was a popular home medical manual of the 1800s with several editions. Cover has some age wear on edges and pages have some age spots, but everything is completely readable. Browse the latest new arrival books at bartlebys books. With supplementary treatises on anatomy, physiology, and hygiene, on domestic and sanitary economy, and on physical culture and development. Enlarged under the authors supervision in 1857 and. Rare 1830 gunns domestic medicine, knoxville tn medical. Chases family physician, and b eachs family physician and home guide by wooster beach, he.
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Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Gunn, it went through multiple editions by 1868 it supposedly had gone through 100 editions. Gunns name was a household word in many nineteenthcentury families, for gunris domestic medicine was the most popular home medical guide throughout the southeastern and middle portions of the united states. Find gunns new domestic physician or home book of health. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Gunns domestic medicine, or, poor mans friend, in the hours. Or poor mans friend, in the hours of affliction, pain and sickness. Gunn, author of the 1830s gunns domestic medicine or poor mans friend, in the hours of affliction, pain and sickness, a medical tome with the purpose to point out, in plain language, free from doctors terms medical remedies helpful to families, characterized the popular health movement like this. Newly illustrated, and restereotyped 1868 reprint gunn, john c. Search for library items search for lists search for contacts search for a library.
Gunn s domestic medicine, or poor mans friend, in the hours of affliction, pain, and sickness, this book points out in plain language free from doctors terms, the diseases of men, women, and children, and the latest and most approved means used in their cure, and is expressly written for the benefit of families, in the western and southern states. Click download or read online button to get poor man s medicine book now. Gunns domestic medicine, or poor mans friend describing, in plain language, the diseases of men, women, and children, and the latest and most approved means used in their cure, and is intended expressly written for the benefit of families in the western and southern states. Gunns domestic medicine, or, poor mans friend in the hours of. Along with the family bible, gunns domestic medicine and the later domestic physician graced the parlor tables of many a home in the 1800s. Popular medical manuals in the 19th century united states. Find gunn s domestic medicine, or poor mans friend, in the hours of by gunn, john c 1835. Medicine was the most popular home medical guide throughout the. This more assertively indigenous text appeared in knoxville in 1830, representing an energetic mix of mainstream medical teachings and frontier resourcefulness. Doctors and diseases on the oregon trail end of the. Gunns domestic medicine by john c gunn, 9781173337575, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Gunns domestic medicine, or poor mans friendshewing the diseases of men, women and children, and. This book points out in plain language free from doctors terms, the diseases of men, women and.
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