TRANSACTIONS OF THE [Sess. 



" Every man his own Physician " 



THE 



VEGETABLE 

 FAMILY PHYSICIAN 



CONTAIXING 



A DESCRIPTION 



OF 



The Roots and Herbs Common to this Country 

 with their Medicinal Properties and Uses 



ALSO 



DIRECTIONS 



For the Treatment of the Diseases Incident to 

 Human Nature by Vegetables Alone 



EMBRACINU 



MANY VALUABLE INDIAN RECIPES 



By SAMUEL B. EMMONS 



BOSTON 



GEORGE T. OAKES 



Pemberton Hill, opposite the head of Hanover Street 



1836 



The author was the editor of the Botanical Journal, a 

 monthly magazine published at Boston, Mass., devoted 

 to spreading the doctrines of the Reformed Thomsonian 

 method of cure. He seems to have known considerable 

 about the botany of his district, and most of his descrip- 

 tions of plants are clear and readily recognisable. 



He begins by a description of about 125 plants, adding 

 their medicinal properties ; then he enumerates a number 

 of diseases and gives a number of " useful and valuable 

 recipes," almost all of purely vegetable composition. He 

 adds short chapters on Diseases of Children (where, by the 

 way, we miss the familiar " salts and senna " and castor 



