Full title: A brief collection of many rare secrets: many of which are approved and physical and the rest most pleasant and recreative: very necessary for all sorts of people
Cautions against the use of violent medicines in fevers, and instances of the virtue of petasite root
Full title: Maladies, remedies and physicians of colonial days in Burlington County, and other kindred topics.: Read before the Historical society of Burlington county, Dec. 11th, 1908
Full title: Mrs. J. Morse's celebrated vegetable extract, for rickets, weakness, debility, dropsy, dysentary [sic], diarrhœa, ulcers in the head, internal inflamation [sic], cutaneous erruptions caused by impurity of the blood, &c
Panacea, or, The universal medicine: being a discovery of the wonderfull vertues of tobacco taken in a pipe...
Full title: Panacea, or, The universal medicine: being a discovery of the wonderfull vertues of tobacco taken in a pipe: with its operation and use both in physick and chyrurgery
Primitive Physick: or, An easy and natural method of curing most diseases
Full title: The virtues of honey in preventing many of the worst disorders: and in the certain cure of several others: particularly the gravel, asthmas, coughs, hoarseness, and a tough morning phlegm.
This diary of Francis David Bacon was written during the mid-nineteenth century and along with giving an account of Bacon's life as a businessman, also provides some household hints and remedies.
The correspondence of Anna S. Cope and Rachel and Jonathan Evans, in particular, often recount family health and well-being, particularly the illnesses of children.
These papers include general spread out accounts of various illness, as well as a letter regarding influenza and several documents involving the illness, treatment, and subsequent death of Arthur Mekeel in 1851.
Josiah White was a prominent engineer during the first half of the 19th century. His papers include correspondence discussing health issues, including medication and just generally various people's state of well-being.
Receipt and Commonplace Books
Receipt and Commonplace books are generally handwritten notebooks containing a variety of information: notes, poetry, prayers, recipies, medicines, etc.
These materials contain McGrew's diary/commonplace book from the 1830s that contain medicinal recipes as well as thoughts on religion and other reflections.
This recipe book includes a large number of recipes in this volume are for various ailments and illnesses, from adults to infants. Written between 1786 and 1794 by Margaret Morris who was a Quaker born in approximately 1737.
