Madame Young's Guide to Health by Amelia Young
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| Author | Young, Amelia |
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| Title |
Madame Young's Guide to Health Her experience and practice for nearly forty years; a true family herbal, wherein is displayed the true properties and medical virtues of all the roots, herbs, &c., indigenous to the United States, and their combination in all the diseases the human body is heir to; also, an explanation of the human body, its liability to injuries through ignorance of its structure. Dedicated exclusively to her sex. |
| Note | Reading ease score: 63.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Credits |
Produced by MFR, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Summary | "Madame Young's Guide to Health" by Amelia Young is a family herbal written in the mid-19th century. This work serves as a comprehensive resource for understanding the medicinal properties of various indigenous herbs and roots found in the United States, aiming to empower readers with the knowledge necessary for addressing a wide array of health issues. Young dedicates her work specifically to women and families, drawing on nearly forty years of personal experience and practice in herbal healing. The opening of the book presents a heartfelt preface, where the author expresses her desire to share her extensive knowledge of herbal medicine, acquired from time spent learning with the Iroquois tribe and through her own observations and studies. Young discusses common misconceptions in existing herbal texts and her commitment to offering accurate and practical guidance in the use of these natural remedies. Furthermore, she begins to lay the foundation for understanding the human body, emphasizing the importance of anatomical knowledge in maintaining health and preventing disease, demonstrating her goal of making the text accessible and informative for all readers. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | RC: Medicine: Internal medicine |
| Subject | Botany, Medical |
| Subject | Medicine, Popular |
| Subject | Materia medica, Vegetable |
| Subject | Women physicians |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 53875 |
| Release Date | Jan 3, 2017 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 156 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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