Gunn's Domestic Medicine or Poor Man's Friend. In the Hours of Affliction, Pain, and Sickness. This Book Points Out, in Plain Language, Free from Doctor's 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. It also Contains Descriptions of the Medicinal Roots and Herbs of the Western and Southern Country, and How They are to be Used in the Cure of Diseases: Arranged on a New and Simple Plan, by which the Practice of Medicine is Reduced to Principles of Common Sense.
Knoxville, Tennessee: A Physician of Knoxville, 1830. 440 pp. + Table p. 549-552 bound in. Hardcover in marbled paper wrapped boards and leather spine. Once the standard home medical reference in much of the United States, Gunn's Domestic Medicine offers a comprehensive mix of herbal remedy, drug treatment.....


