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STILL, JAMES.
Early Recollections and Life of Dr. James Still.
Frontispiece.
274 pages. 8vo, original green cloth; lightly rubbed with some faint mottling; delicate
chocolate end-papers intact; early ownership signature and small library stamp, with no
other ex-library signs.
Philadelphia, 1877
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FIRST EDITION
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James Still (1812-1882) brother of Underground Rail Road conductor and chroni-
cler William Still, was a noted homeopath. Though not a trained or licensed physician, James Still
gained a reputation as a distinguished herbalist—a seller of botanical remedies of his own devising,
whose superiority gained him a large clientele. Known as the “black doctor of the pinelands,” early
New Jersey settlers came from miles around to be treated by Dr. Still.