Madame Young's Guide to Health

Front matter

Reading edition

INDEX. DEVELOPMENT OF THE FŒTUS. PERIOD OF GESTATION. FAMILY HERBAL. RECIPES. PHYSIOLOGY. ROOTS AND HERBS. MISCELLANY. PREJUDICE. RHEUMATISM—ITS CAUSES. THE INFLUENCE OF OPIUM. THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS. TO MOTHERS, GENERAL REMARKS. THE DIET OF CHILDREN. REMARKS ON FOOD. TABLE, SHOWING THE MEAN TIME OF DIGESTION Inferences from Dr. Beaumont’s Experiments and Observations, given in his own words. CATALOGUE OF HERBS, MEDICINAL PLANTS, &c. SYNONYMS. ORDINARY EXTRACTS. DOUBLE DISTILLED AND FRAGRANT WATERS. PROPERTIES EXPLAINED. RECOMMENDATIONS.

Illustration from 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.

MADAME YOUNG, M. D.