1st Edition
Ladies' Dispensatory
366 Pages
10 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
364 Pages
10 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
366 Pages
10 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Leonard Sowerby's self-healing manual for women, The Ladies' Dispensatory , emerged in England in 1652 amidst an abundance of medical self-help books for the lay citizen. Written for both the common patient and the amateur health provider, these manuals of home remedies provided their readers with a variety of potential solutions to common ailments or disease. Sowerby's Dispensatory was... Read more
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe Ladies DispensatoryTable of Medicinal IngredientsGlossaryAppendix: Table of AbortifacientsAppendix of Images
Biography
Carey Balaban, Jonathan Erlen, Richard Sederits
"Written in 1652, Leonard Sowersby's The Ladies Dispensatory is a good example of one the large number of vernacular, self-help manuals which appeared in England during Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate. The publication of Sowersby's Dispensatory this provides readily accessible reference material for both student and academic alike." -- Louis Gray, Medicina & Storia
