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The ANCIENT CURES

& TRADITIONAL MEDICINE

COLLECTION

A truly unique and fascinating collection of 126 rare, out-of-print books compiled together for the first time on one USB flash drive covering all aspects of ANCIENT CURES & TRADITIONAL MEDICINES.

Study the healing powers of nature – from wild medicinal plants, flowers and herbs to sacred roots. Explore the magical properties of charms, jewels, and noble metals. Read about traditional native American cures, botanical herb doctors, medicine men as well ancient medicines from around the world. With works dating as far back as the 1500s and 1600s, this is an absolute must for anyone with an interest in traditional and ancient medicines. Some of the books contained within this collection are extremely hard-to-find and will provide a valuable library of reference material. The full list of titles included speaks for itself….

This superb compilation of vintage books provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great content and fabulous photos / illustrations for the reader. All of the books have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to read on your laptop or computer, or transfer to tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also print entire books or select pages. Most of the books are in English with several works in French and German.

This is without doubt the most extensive collection of its kind - compiled over time by Rare Book Collections, and only available here!

The Full List of Titles Included is as Follows:

A collection of above three hundred receipts in cookery, physick, and surgery - M. Kettilby (1746)

A contribution to the history of medicine in southern California - C. Bard (1894)

A glance at Japanese medicine, ancient and modern - W. Helmuth (1893)

A key to physic, and the occult sciences - to which are added, lunar tables exhibiting the actual moment of the crisis of every disease - E. Sibly (1790)

A new method of Rosie Crucian physick - wherein is shewed the cause, and therewith their experienced medicines for the cure of all diseases - J. Heydon (1658)

A rich storehouse, or, treasury for the diseased - wherein is discovered 69. rare secrets to cure most diseases, many of them never before in print - J. Aymes (1676)

A short history of Aryan medical science - H. H. Sir Bhagavat Sinh Jee (1896)

A treatise on the diseases, as they occur in the island of Jamaica, with observations on the country remedies - J. Thomson (1820)

Aberglaube und Volksmedizin im Lande der Bibel - T. Canaan (1915) (German text)

Aberglaube und Zauberei in der Volksmedizin Sachsens - C. Sayfarth (1913) (German text)

American medicinal flowers, fruits, and seeds - A. Henkel (1913)

An account of the diseases, natural history, and medicines of the East Indies - J. de Bondt (1769)

An English translation of the Sushruta Samhita, based on original Sanskrit text - Vol. 1 (1907)

An English translation of the Sushruta Samhita, based on original Sanskrit text - Vol. 2 (1907)

An English translation of the Sushruta Samhita, based on original Sanskrit text - Vol. 3 (1907)

An interpretation of ancient Hindu medicine - C. Chakraberty (1922)

Ancient cures, charms, and usages of Ireland; contributions to Irish lore - L. Wilde (1890)

Ancient Egyptian medicine - J. Finlayson (1893)

Anglo-Saxon leechcraft, an historical sketch of early English medicine (1912)

Animal simples, approved for modern uses of cure - W. Fernie (1899)

Bantu folk lore, medical and general - M. Hewatt (1906)

Botany of New Zealand (1831)

Cherokee theory and practice of medicine - J. Mooney (1890)

Choice and experimented receipts in physick and chirurgery - K. Digby (1668)

Contributions towards the materia medica & natural history of China - F. Smith (1871)

De geneeskunde der Menangkabau-Maleiers - J. Kleiweg de Zwaan (1910) (German text)

Des états primitifs de la médecine - A. Bouchinet (1891) (French text)

Die Medicin der Naturvölker - M. Bartels (1893) (German text)

Die Medizin der alter Ägypter Vol. 1 (1909) (German text)

Die Medizin der alter Ägypter Vol. 2 (1909) (German text)

Die Medizin im Talmud - A. Stern (1909) (German text)

Domestic economy, or, A complete system of English housekeeping - M. Hazelmore (1794)

Domestic medicine, or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines - W. Buchan (1798)

Dr. Crook's Wine of tar alphabet (1883)

Dr. Evans' How to keep well, a health book for the home - W. Evans (1918)

Dr. R. Greene's indianopathy, or science of Indian medicine - founded upon the laws of nature, the principles of which were obtained by Dr. Greene in his travels among the Indians - R. Greene (1858)

English medicine in the Anglo-Saxon times - J. Payne (1904)

Every man his own doctor, or, The poor planter's physician - J. Tennent (1734)

Fenning's everybody's doctor - A. Fennings (1870)

Florilegio medicinal de todas las enfermedades - J. Esteyneffer (1853)

Folk-medicine, a chapter in the history of culture - W. Black (1883)

Fray's golden recipes for the use of all ages - E. Fray (1897)

Girdles their origin and development, particularly with regard to their use as charms in medicine, and midwifery - W. Dilling (1914)

Good remedies, out of fashion - C. Hare (1883)

Gunn's Domestic medicine, or Poor man's friend - J. Gunn (1839)

Herbal simples, approved for modern uses of cure - W. Fernie (1897)

Incubation, or, The cure of disease in pagan temples and Christian churches - M. Hamilton (1906)

Indian medicine - J. Browne (1866)

John Wesley's valuable primitive remedies, or, An easy and natural method of curing most diseases - J. Wesley (1880)

Kitchen physic, at hand for the doctor, and helpful for homely cures - W. Fernie (1901)

La médicine chez les Chinois - P. Dabry (1863) (French text)

Malay poisons and charm cures - J. Gimlette (1915)

Malay poisons and charm cures (2nd Edition) - J. Gimlette (1922)

Meals medicinal with herbal simples (of edible parts) - curative foods from the cook in place of drugs from the chemist - W. Fernie (1905)

Medical and miscellaneous recipes, from the best recipes to be had - D. Slater (1900)

Medicina diastatica, or, Sympatheticall mumie containing many mysterious and hidden secrets in philosophy and physic - Paracelsus (1653)

Medicine in ancient Erin - H. Wellcome (1909)

Medicine, magic, and religion - W. Rivers (1916)

Medieval medicine - J. Walsh (1920)

Notes on Chinese materia medica (1862)

Occult science in medicine - F. Hartmann (1893)

Old-time makers of medicine; the story of the students and teachers of the sciences related to medicine during the middle ages - J. Walsh (1911)

Outlines of Greek and Roman medicine - J. Elliot (1914)

Philtres, charmes, poisons; antiquité, moyen âge, renaissance, temps modernes - E. Gilbert (1880) (French text)

Practice of medicine among the Burmese - K. MacDonald (1879)

Praxis Catholica; or the countryman's universal remedy. Wherein is plainly and briefly laid down the nature, matter, manner, place and cure of most diseases, incident to the body of man - R. Couch (1680)

Precious stones for curative wear, and other remedial uses likewise the nobler metals - W. Fernie (1903)

Primitive physick or, an easy and natural method of curing most diseases - J. Wesley (1761)

Primitive physick, or, An easy and natural method of curing most diseases (14th Edition) - J. Wesley (1770)

Primitive physic, or, An easy and natural method of curing most diseases (28th Edition) - J. Wesley (1815)

Ransom's family receipt book (1886)

Regimen sanitatis Salerni or, the Schoole of Salernes regiment of health. Contayning most learned and judicious directions and instructions, for the guide and government of mans life - A. de Villanova (1634)

Remarkable remedies (1880) (Article)

Scatalogic rites of all nations - a dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters, etc. - J. Bourke (1891)

Secrets revealed; the key to health and prosperity, from leading physicians of the United States, Berlin, London and Vienna - W. Ross (1917)

Studies in Santal medicine and connected folklore - P. Bodding (1922)

Studies in the medicine of ancient India - A. Hoernle (1907)

Surgical methods among savage races - E. Morgan (1904)

Syrian anatomy, pathology and therapeutics, or, The Book of Medicines - E. Budge (1913)

The American herbal, or materia medica - wherein the virtues of the mineral, vegetable, and animal productions of North and South America are laid open, so far as they are known - S. Stearns (1801)

The cabinet of wealth, or, The temple of wisdom - J. Parkins (1812)

The castell of helth - T. Elyot (1550)

The Cherokee physician, or, Indian guide to health - R. Foreman (1849)

The Cottage physician - best known methods of treatment in all diseases, accidents and emergencies of the home - T. Faulkner (1892)

The cottage physician for individual and family use - prevention, symptoms and treatment best known methods in all diseases, accidents and emergencies of the home (1896)

The English physician enlarged - with three hundred and sixty nine medicines, made of English herbs, that were not in any impression until this (1799)

The English physitians guide - J. Heydon (1662)

The experienced botanist or Indian physician - being a new system of practice, founded on botany - J. Cooper (1840)

The fourteenth edition of an essay, on the nature and cure of scrophulous disorders, commonly called the king's evil - J. Morley (1775)

The great American receipt book (1860)

The herb doctor and medicine man - a collection of valuable medicinal formulae and guide to the manufacture of botanical medicines - J. Meyer (1922)

The household encyclopedia and practical home physician - Mrs I. Beeton (1892)

The Indian doctor's dispensatory, or Every man his own physician - A. Smith (1833)

The Indian practice of medicine - B. Walker (1847)

The Indian vegetable family instructer - P. Bowker (1851)

The indigenous drugs of India, or, Short descriptive notices of the principal medicines, both vegetable and mineral, in common use among the natives of India - K. Dey (1867)

The long lost friend, or, Faithful & Christian instructions containing wonderous and well-tried arts & remedies, for man as well as animals - J. Hohman (1850)

The magic of jewels and charms - G. Kunz (1915)

The medical assistant, or Jamaica practice of physic - T. Dancer (1809)

The medical mythology of Ireland - J. Mooney (1887)

The medicine man - J. Maddox (1922)

The medicine-men of the Apache - J. Bourke (1892)

The Midēwiwin, or, Grand medicine society of the Ojibwa - W. Hoffman (1891)

The mystery and romance of alchemy and pharmacy - C. Thompson (1897)

The new family herbal - comprising a description, and the medical virtues of British and foreign plants - M. Robinson (1863)

The North American Indian doctor, or, Nature's method of curing and preventing disease according to the Indians - R. Foster (1838)

The northern tribes of central Australia - B. Spencer (1904)

The nurse's guide, and family assistant - R. Johnson (1818)

The old root and herb doctor, or, the Indian method of healing - J. Briante (1870)

The physicians of Myddvai (1865)

The poor man's physician, or the receipts of the famous John Moncrief of Tippermalloch - J. Moncrief (1716)

The practice of medicine by the Chinese in America - S. Culin (1887)

The sacred formulas of the Cherokees - J. Mooney (1891)

The science of oriental medicine (1897)

The secrets of the famous Lazarus Riverius, councellor & physician to the French king, and professor of physick in the University of Montpelier - L. Riviere (1685)

The wise-mans crown, or, The glory of the rosie-cross - shewing the wonderful power of nature ... or first matter of metals, and their preparations into incredible medicines - J. Heydon (1684)

The works of the highly experienced and famous chymist, John Rudolph Glauber containing, great variety of choice secrets in medicine and alchymy - J. Glauber (1689)

Treatise on the great art, a system of physics according to Hermetic philosophy and theory and practice of the Magisterium - A. Pernety (1898)

Trephining in its ancient and modern aspect - J. Horne (1894)

Vergleichende Volksmedizin - A. Horvorka (1908) (German text)

Volksmedicin - A. Jacobi (1885) (German text)

Volksmedizin und medizinischer Aberglaube in Bayern und den angrenzenden Bezirken, begründet auf die Geschichte der Medizin und Cultur - G. Lammert (1869) (German text)

Weeds used in medicine - A. Henkel (1904)

Wild medicinal plants of the United States - A. Henkel (1906)

Wunder, Wundergeburt und Wundergestalt in Einblattdrucken des fünfzehnten bis achtzehnten Jahrhunderts - E. Hollander (1921) ( German text)

Zulu medicine and medicine-men - A. Bryant (1909)

An absolute must for anyone with an interest in ancient medicines, traditional cures and home remedies – an unbelievable treasure trove of information for a very small price!

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