THE HOME DOCTOR! 



THIS is a new and valuable book for every family in the United States, 

 and one that may be consulted with perfect safety. As its titlepage indi- 

 cates, it is 



OR FAMILY MANUAL: 



giving tho Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment of Diseases ; with an ac- 

 count of the System while in health, and Rules for preserving that state. 

 Appended to which are Recipes for making various Medicines and articles 

 of Diet for the sick-room. The whole written for general use and daily 

 practice. By JOHN B. NEWMAN, M. D." 



Also, accompanying this book, or separate, is 



BOOK OF HERBS,:::: 



Devoted exclusively te> Herbs, giving their names, varieties, descrip- 

 tion, medical properties and doses, use, time of gathering, and many 

 other directions very useful for every family to know, and written ex- 

 pressly for family use." 



The Book of Herbs is devoted solely to Popular Medical Botany, and 

 will furnish on that point all the desired information wanted for general use 



Such a manual is very valuable to all families in the country, who desire 

 to inform themselves relative to the properties of plants that grow around 

 them ; and not only to find their names and virtues, but tho best method 

 of deriving benefit from them. The properties of each, more especially 

 the medicinal, are confirmed, in most instances, by personal experience 

 O" Remedies are given for poisoning by vegetables, and general direc- 

 tions for avoiding noxious plants, and not mistaking them for others. 



In preparing this book the author has had three important things in 

 view : 



1st. The prevention of Disease ; 



2d. The arrest of Disease when threatened by it ; and 



3d. The cure of Disease by the most simple remedies to be obtained. 



** The two books are bound together, and constitute a neat volume 

 of 200 12mo. pages. 



Price, for mail edition, 25 cents, being the cheapest book in the 

 marktt. jj^gf" Any person sending me ONE DOLLAK, free of postage, 

 shall receive FOUR COPIES by mail, free of expense. 



WILLIAM ALLING, 



Bookseller and Publisher, Nos. 10 <fc 12 Exchange Street. 

 Rochester, May, 1853. 



