The Home Doctor: or Family Manual, Giving the Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment of Diseases; with an Account of the System While in Health, and Rules for Preserving That State. Appended to which are Recipes for Making Various Medicines and Articles of Diet…

98, 96 pp. Ten engraved plates. Black blind-stamped cloth, gilt titles. A domestic medical work by a 'regular' physician well-known for his works on botany. "Newman's manual of domestic medicine provides very brief descriptions of 133 common disorders and their treatment. This and successive editions of The Home Doctor were issued with the author's Book of Herbs, [which was] intended as a companion [and] provides descriptions of 175 medicinal plants, and is illustrated with ten wood engravings. An index of common American plant names (p. [5]-6) provides access to the descriptions in the text."