Historical Library

Historical Library Index

Dispensatories

• King’s American Dispensatory by John King, Felter, Lloyd (1898)
• Materia Indica by Whitelaw Ainslie (19th century)
• Remarks on the Uses of Some of the Bazaar Medicines and Common Medical Plants of India by Edward John Waring (1897)
• The Materia Medica of the Hindus by Uday Chand Dutt (19th century)
• The Vegetable Materia Medica of Western India by W. Dymock (1885)

Domestic Economy

• Harper’s Household Handbook by Martha McCulloch Williams (1913)
• The American Frugal Housewife by Lydia Maria Child (1832)
• The Cook and Housekeeper’s Complete and Universal Dictionary by Mary Eaton (early 1800s)
• The Still-Room by Mrs. Charles Roundell (1903)

Domestic Medicine

• Domestic Medicine by William Buchan (1791)
• Madame Young’s Guide to Health by Amelia Young (19th century)
• The Home Medical Library, Vols. 1–2 by Kenelm Winslow (early 1900s)

Eclectic Medicine

• A Manual of the Eclectic Treatment of Disease by Finley Ellingwood (1906)
• A Systematic Treatise on Materia Medica and Therapeutics by Finley Ellingwood (1898)
• American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy by Finley Ellingwood (1919)
• Specific Medication and Specific Medicines by John M. Scudder (1870)
• The American Eclectic Materia Medica and Therapeutics by John M. Scudder (1883)
• The Eclectic Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics by Harvey Wickes Felter (1922)
• The Eclectic Practice of Medicine by Finley Ellingwood (1906)

Farm Veterinary History

• Cattle and Their Diseases by Robert Jennings (19th century)
• Manual of Veterinary Homeopathy by F. Humphreys (19th century)
• Text Book of Veterinary Medicine, Vol. I by James Law (19th century)
• The Farmer’s Own Book: Diseases of the Horse / Horned Cattle by J. D. Koogle (19th century)
• The Farmer’s Veterinarian by Charles William Burkett (1914)
• The Illustrated Horse Doctor by Edward Mayhew (1862)

Foodways Cookery

• Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches by Eliza Leslie (19th century)
• Miss Leslie’s Lady’s New Receipt-book by Eliza Leslie (19th century)

Herbals

• American Medical Botany by Jacob Bigelow (early 1800s)
• Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants by A. R. Harding (1908)
• Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by W. T. Fernie (1897)
• Medical Flora by C. S. Rafinesque (1828)
• The Book of Herbs by Rosalind Northcote (1903)
• The Complete Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper (1653)
• The Family Herbal by Sir John Hill (1812)
• The Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde (1922)
• Vegetable Materia Medica of the United States by William P. C. Barton (early 1800s)
• Weeds Used in Medicine by Alice Henkel (1904)

Homeopathy

• Materia Medica Pura by Samuel Hahnemann (early 1800s)
• Organon of the Rational Art of Healing by Samuel Hahnemann (early 1800s)
• Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica by William Boericke (1906)
• The Chronic Diseases by Samuel Hahnemann (early 1800s)
• The Homoeopathic Domestic Physician by Constantine Hering (1859)

Pennsylvania Dutch Plain Context

• Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes by Edith M. Thomas (1915)
• Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking by Anonymous (1935)
• Pennsylvania Dutch Guide-Book by Unknown (20th century)
• The Evolution of the Country Community by Warren H. Wilson (early 1900s)
• The Story of the Pennsylvania Germans by William Beidelman (1898)
• “Pennsylvania Dutch,” and Other Essays by Phebe Earle Gibbons (1882)

Pharmacy

• Histology of Medicinal Plants by William James Mansfield (1916)
• Pharmacographia by Friedrich A. Flückiger (19th century)
• Pharmacologia by John Ayrton Paris (1825)

Physio-Medicalism

• The Physio-Medical Dispensatory by William H. Cook (1869)

Remedy Collections

• A Book of Simples by Henry William Lewer (1750)
• Mother’s Remedies: Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by T. J. Ritter (1910s)
• New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies by Edward Pollock Anshutz (early 1900s)

Safety Adulteration

• A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons by Fredrick Accum (1820s)

Self Reliance Processes

• A Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts and Interesting Experiments by Anonymous (19th century)
• Our Knowledge Box; or, Old Secrets and New Discoveries by Unknown (late 1800s)
• Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians by Wm. K. David (late 1800s)
• Soap-Making Manual by E. G. Thomssen (1922)

Thomsonian Botanic

• Life and Medical Discoveries of Samuel Thomson by John Uri Lloyd (1909)
• New Guide to Health; or, Botanic Family Physician by Samuel Thomson (1832)