THE HERBALIST AND HERB DOCTOR
Book Details + Condition: Indiana Herb Gardens (Hammond, Indiana). First Edition, 1918. Hardcover measuring 6.5" x 3.15". 410 pages. Illustrated. A compendium of herbs and their medical uses, including how to identify and harvest medicinal plants. Author Joseph Meyer devoted his life to providing herbs and information to people across the United States, earning him the title of the Old Herb Doctor. Many readers of Meyer's Herbalist Almanac were inspired to send letters praising his herbs and treatments, claiming miraculous cures, and sharing their own remedies. Those letters were collected to create "The Herbalist and Herb Doctor" (this copy), detailing the way Americans used medicinal herbs.
Firm binding; minor shelf wear to boards; toning to pages; interior is clean and free of markings, save some pencilled and inked notations to rear free (blank) endpaper. All books are carefully packed, and shipped in boxes.
