The Indian vegetable family instructer: : containing the names and descriptions of all the most useful herbs and plants that grow in this country, with their medicinal qualities annexed; also, a treatise on many of the lingering diseases to which mankind are subject, ... with a large list of recipes, which have been carefully selected from Indian prescriptions ... Designed for the use of families in the United States. / By Pierpont F. Bowker.

  • Bowker, Pierpont F.
Date:
1851
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Credit: The Indian vegetable family instructer: : containing the names and descriptions of all the most useful herbs and plants that grow in this country, with their medicinal qualities annexed; also, a treatise on many of the lingering diseases to which mankind are subject, ... with a large list of recipes, which have been carefully selected from Indian prescriptions ... Designed for the use of families in the United States. / By Pierpont F. Bowker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF THE DIFFERENT CLASSES OF MEDICINES. uibsorbenis—Suckers up, or imbibers of moisture. Agglutinents—Uniters—Strengtheners. Antiasthmatics—Medicines good in asthma. Alesipharmics—Expellers of poison by sweat. Anodynes—Easers of pain and procurers of sleep. Antalkalines—All acids. Anthelmintics—Medicines wliich expel worms. Antacids—Alkalizants—absorbents—neutral salts. Antidysenterics—Medicines good against dysentery.. Antiepileptics—Remedies against the epilepsy. Antihystcrics—Remedies against hysteria] affections. Antiscorbutics—Medicines good for scurvy. Antiseptics—Resisters of putrefaction. Atitispasmodics—Good against spasms and convul- sions. Antivenereal—Medicines which destroy the venereal virus. Aperients—Openers ; the same as deobstruents. Aphrodisaics—Exciters of venery. Aromatics—Medicines which warm the habit. Astringents—Remedies which bind and strengthen. Attenvants—Resolvers of humors. BaUaniics—Medicines which cleanse, heal and re- store. Carminatives—Expellers of wind. Cataplasms—Poultices. Cathartics—Purgatives. Caustics—Medicines which bum and consume the- flesh.