The complete herbalist, or, the people their own physicians by the use of nature's remedies showing the great curative properties of all herbs, gums, balsams, barks, flowers and roots ; how they should be prepared, when and under what influences selected, at what times gathered, and for what diseases administered. Also, separate treatises on fod and drinks ; clothing ; exercise ; the regulation of the passions, life, health, and disease; longevity; medication; air and sunshine ; bathing ; sleep, etc. Also, symptoms of prevalent diseases ; special treatment in special cases; and a new and plain system of hygienic principles / by O. Phelps Brown.
A popular home-medicine and herbal manual written and self-published in London in 1871 by O. Phelps Brown, addressed to lay readers treating themselves with plant remedies. Hand-coloured plates show three labelled medicinal plants per page on plain cream grounds, each a single flowering sprig with roots sometimes exposed, useful as simple botanical spot motifs with letterpress name tags.
