A new and complete American medical family herbal : wherein, is displayed the true properties and medical virtues of the plants, indigenous to the United States of America : together with Lewis' secret remedy, newly discovered, which has been found infallible in the cure of that dreadful disease hydrophobia, produced by the bite of a mad dog ...

Signatures: [1]⁴ 2-49⁴ [50]¹ "Skull-cap. Scutellaria galericulata": p. 269-270. This includes the remedy for hydrophobia which Daniel Lewis obtained from Dr. Lawrence Van Derveer of New Jersey. Cf. Lyman Spalding's A history of the introduction and use of Scutellaria latiflora, New York, 1819, p. 12-13 List of subscribers: p. [391]-393 Includes index NLM copy 1, imperfect: p. 25-26 wanting; NLM copy 2, imperfect: p. 393-[394] wanting. DNLM NLM copy 1, ms. notes entitled "American Works on Medical Botany" on one leaf of lined paper inserted at front; additional ms. notes pertaining to this book on six leaves of lined paper inserted at end. NLM copy 2, occasional plant names added in ms. throughout. Film 633 reel 49 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 49, no. 902).