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.Young, Amelia
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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.
Young, Amelia
Botany, Medical; Materia medica, Vegetable; Medicine, Popular; Women physicians
Hyoscyamus, (See henbane,)
Hyssop, Hyssopus officinalis,
Indian arrow wood, (See Wa-a-hoo,)
" elm, (See slippery elm,)
" hemp, black, Apocynum canabinum, 75
" " white, Asclepias incarnata, 75
" tobacco, (See lobelia,)
" turnip, (See wild turnip,)
Indigo, wild, Baptisia tinctoria, 50
Ipecac, milk, (See bitter root,)
" wild, (See fever root,)
Ink root, (See marsh rosemary,)
Ipecacuanha, Am., Euphorbia ipecacuanha,
Itch weed, (See white hellebore,)
Ivy, ground, Glechomo hedracea, 50
Jacob’s ladder, Similax peduncularis,
Jamestown, or jimson weed, (See thorn apple,)
Job’s tears, Coix lachryma,
Joe-pye, (See boneset,)
Johnswort, Hypericum perforatum, 25
King’s clover, (See melilot,)
Knob root, (See stoneroot,)
Knotgrass, Polygonum aviculare,
Labrador tea, Ledum latifolium, 40
Ladies’ slipper, Cypripedium flavum, 75
" sorrel, Oxalis carniculata,
Lamb kill, (See laurel,)
Larkspur herb, Delphinium consolidum, 50
" seed, " "
Laurel leaves, Kalmia latifolia, 38
Lavender flowers, Lavendula spica, 50
Lavose, (See lovage,)
Leatherwood bark, Dirca palustris,
Leopard-bane, (See arnica,)
Lettuce, garden, Lactuca sativa, 50
" wild, " elongata, 50
Life-everlasting, (See sweet balsam,) 35
Life of man, (See spikenard,)
Life root, Senecio aureus,
Lily, white pond, Nymphæ adorata, 50
Lily, yellow pond, Nuphar advena, 50
Linden flowers, (See tilia,)
Liquorice root, wild, (See sarsaparilla,)
Liverwort, or liver leaf, Hepatica triloba, 1 00
Lobelia herb, Lobelia inflata, 40
" seed, " "
Locust plant, (See senna,)
Lovage leaves, Ligusticum, levisticum, 50
" root, " " 50
" seed, " "
Lungwort, Variolaria faginea, 75
Mad weed, (See scullcap,)
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