The American Physician, and Family Assistant:

In Five Parts.

by Elias Smith 

Fourth edition.  Boston:  B. True, Printer, 1837 

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD- condition.

• Leatherbound covers have black spine label with gilt.  /
• Boards show some smudges, scuffing, cracking at shoulders, edgewear.  Corners are worn, with exposed board.  See photos.
• Spine has gilt text on black label and is effaced with chipped, frayed ends.  
• Binding is secure. 
• Pastedowns and feps have some moderate foxing, writing, upper third of feps is cut away.  See photos. 
• Interior is gently age-toned, exhibits scattered foxing, some corners turned in. 
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have a few marks. 
• PS2025.1104

306 pages. 3 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches

Contemporary calf binding.  The fourth edition of this 19th c. treatise on medicine and health.  Pocket sized, with well-spaced and legible text, albeit with foxing throughout.  Condition is overall Very Good Minus.

The five parts contain a description of vegetable medicines; the manner of preparing them for use; a description of diseases and the manner of curing them; a description of "mineral and vegetabe poisons given by those called regular doctors, under the name of medicines;" and "health variously illustrated."  Smith combined his religious faith with herbal medicine, offering instruction in its practice in this volume.  A copy of Andrew Jackson's Farewell Address to the American People follows Smith's text.

Elias Smith (1769–1846) was an American preacher, physician, journalist and clergyman.  Smith co-founded a group of Christian Churches in New England that eventually merged with other like-minded, regional groups to become the denomination known as the Christian Connexion.  

Fourth Edition, per the title page.

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