Madame Young's Guide to Health

Madame Young's Guide to Health - Her experience and practice for nearly forty years; a true family herbal, wherein is displayed the true properties and medical virtues of all the roots, herbs, &c., indigenous to the United States, and their combination in all the diseases the human body is heir to; also, an explanation of the human body, its liability to injuries through ignorance of its structure. Dedicated exclusively to her sex.

MY Beloved Sex: I have taken upon myself a great task, at the age of sixty-two, through love for you and the rising generation. The Scripture teaches,Where much is given, much will be required; that is the case with me. Natures gift was liberal, and this gift I had ample means to cultivate. I left Boston, my native place, and kind parents, at the age of fifteen, for Montreal, there to acquire and master languages which my native home could not bestow. Here I devoted three years to French and Latin, as they were absolutely necessary for my advancement in Philosophy and Botany. I remained here some years, and frequently visited the Iroquois tribe, learning much of them in the healing art. I began to keep a regular manuscript of all I could possibly learn from every tribe and nation, not allowing myself to be biased by prejudice. My beloved friends, daily do I read books that are styled Herbal, on the Virtues of Roots, Herbs, &c., and have not only discovered in them an almost innumerable quantity of errors and defects, but also a multiplicity of directions for their uses which my own knowledge and practice proves ineffectual in the cure of the complaints to which these treatisers have directed their applications. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 53875
Author: Young, Amelia
Release Date: Jan 3, 2017
Format: eBook
Language: English