Images from the Library

Full page color illustration of flowering plant

Lets have a little color this month with images for every Monday in March from Jacob Bigelow’s American medical botany, being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings .. (1817)

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Images from the Library

Full page illustration of doctor beside a child's sickbed

From A.W. Chase’s Dr. Chase’s third, last and complete receipt book and household physician, or, Practical knowledge for the people, from the life-long observations of the author : embracing the choicest, most valuable and entirely new receipts in every department of medicine, mechanics, and househould economy : including a treatise on the diseases of women and children, in fact, the book for the million, with remarks and explanations which adapt it to the every-day wants of the people arranged in departments and most copiously indexed (1890).

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