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HILL, JOHN S. The family practice of physic: or, a plain, intelligible, and easy method of curing diseases with the plants of our own country. The asthma with bittersweet. The gravel with uva ursi. The dropsy with bark of elder. Bleedings with juice of nettles.
[...] London, Self Published. 1769, First Edition. Full-Leather, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st ed. for the author in St James Street [1769]. 19cm. 94p. 6 botanical plates (one coloured). dark brown leather, worn and split on spine. Pages soiled and edges browned. half of TP missing. Last few pages cut out, text finishes on page 94, 2 pages at end with recipes for medicines in old handwriting. Early and rare treatise on herbal remedies. "..and [curing] other disorders with simple medicines prepared from such plants: which are safe, and effectual in any hands: to be had at a small price in all places in town or country; and accompanied with such directions that any person may use them successfully for himself or family: saving to all, the danger of rough medicines; and to the poor, the expence of physicians and apothecaries. with figures of the plants engraved from nature.". Fair.
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