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(MEDICINE.) STILL, JAMES.
Early
Recollection and Life of Dr. James Still.
Portrait frontispiece 274 pages
LOOSELY LAID
IN IS A CONTEMPORARY PHARMACIST
’
S FLYER
,
ADVERTISING DR
.
JAMES STILL
’
S
“
BLACK SALVE
”
AND OTHER CURES
8vo, original green cloth, re-cased with the original spine laid down.
[Philadelphia]: Lippincott, 1877
[700/1,000]
FIRST EDITION OF A VERY SCARCE BOOK
,
MADE SCARCER YET BY THE INCLUSION OF A
FLYER PRINTING SOME OF DOCTOR STILL
’
S CURES
.
James Still (1821-1902), physician, herbal-
ist, and author studied folk medicine with the Lenape Indians of the Ramapo Valley. He later
apprenticed himself to a regular physician and learned enough to function as a doctor himself.
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