The Herb Doctor and Medicine Man 1922 by Joseph E. Meyer - Herbal Remedies - Indiana Botanic Gardens

Title: The Herb Doctor and Medicine Man: A Collection of Valuable Medicinal Formulae and Guide to the Manufacture of Botanical Medicines

Author: Joseph E. Meyer

Description: Staple-bound in pictorial card covers. Dampstain to top part of front cover, also visible to varying degrees on several pages. 96 pp. 6.75 x 2.75 inches.

Joseph Meyer's catalog of hundreds of herbal remedies and a guide to the treatment of various ailments. Presents more than sixty herb teas (the teas list their component herbs), and a wide variety of various perfumes, soaps, liquids, tablets, oils, salves, ointments, lotions. Price list given at end of booklet.

The guide to the treatment and aid for the sufferers of ailments includes advice on the maladies of smallpox, pneumonia, influenza, fevers (typhoid, malarial, measles, scarlet fever), dyspepsia, rheumatism, whooping cough, constipation, ulcers, eczema, dropsy, painful menses, heart palpitations, goiter, epilepsy, colic, and much more.

Indiana Botanic Gardens was founded in 1910 in Hammond, Indiana, by horticulturist and herbalist Joseph E. Meyer (1878-1950). Today they are the largest and oldest retailer of herbs in the United States.

Binding: Staple bound soft cover
Condition: Good

Publisher: Indiana Herbs / Indiana Botanic Gardens
Place: Hammond, Ind.
Year: 1922

Language: English

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