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 King's American Dispensatory
By H.W. Felter, M.D.
and J.U. Lloyd, Phr.M., Ph.D.,
2 vols
.

Dispensatories present therapies that have been verified with patients in both clinical and hospital settings. This 1898 classic revision of Professor John King's earlier work is an encyclopedic text that encompasses the entire materia medica of the Eclectic physicians of the last century. It covers botany, history, chemistry, uses and dosage. A standard reference for any serious practitioner of botanical therapeutics.

2,172 pgs. Hardcover $285.00
ISBN 1-888483-02-4
Item # 58104

 
The Eclectic Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics
By H.W. Felter, M.D.

 

 

This 1922 text is essentially a condensed clinical version of King's American Dispensatory
with an additional 100 pages of pharmacology information.

764 pages Hardcover. $95.00
ISBN 1-888483-03-2

Item #58107

The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy
By Finley Ellingwood, M.D.


This 1919 eleventh edition text is arranged by drug action and the organs they influence.
Five fold-out charts compare the most commonly used botanicals of the time to treat fever,
heart, digestive, liver and female reproductive organ conditions.

564 pages Hardcover $98.00
ISBN 1-888483-05-0

Item#58106

The Physio-Medical Dispensatory
By William H. Cook, M.D.

 
The Physio-Medicalists distinguished themselves from other medical sects by their refusal to use any poisonous substance and by a simplified system of actions and energetics. This 1869 reprint is a classic botanical materia medica from the Physio-Medicalist viewpoint.

Hardcover. 832 pages $98.00
ISBN 1-888483-07-5

Item #58101

Reading the Eye, Pulse and Tongue
for the Indicated Remedy

Essays by Eli Jones, M.D.

 

This book offers useful insights for both homeopathic and botanical practitioners with an emphasis on physical diagnosis in remedy selection, distinct from the limiting practice of prescribing remedies on the basis of symptoms told to the doctor by the patient.

$15.00
Item #58121

Specific Diagnosis
by John Milton Scudder, M.D.


First published in 1874, Dr. Scudder proposes that there is a definite relationship between known drug actions and known symptom expressions. Specific Diagnosis became the philosophical foundation upon which the post Civil War Eclectic medical practice was based.

Hardcover, 387 pages $35
ISBN 1-888483-04-0

Item #58103


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