Item #101012 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. John C. Gunn.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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 and practical medicine. Some of the contents may strike the reader as surprisingly modern. Although prefaced by some admonitory paragraphs prescribing virtue, the section on venereal disease is extremely straightforward, as is the section on abortion. In the section on female genitalia, Gunn begins: "I would omit the description of these parts altogether, were not a slight delineation of them, essential to understanding the medical doctrines and diseases relating to them." He then goes on to give a multi-page description, even including the clitoris. The text is also notable for its long preamble on the human passions, wherein Gunn explores the effects on health of grief, love, jealousy, etc., and even religion. A nice 1st edition copy of an important and interesting medical work. Item #101012

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