{"product_id":"digital-product-21","title":"Gunn's Domestic Medicine (c. 1860) - John C. Gunn","description":"\u003ch2\u003eGunn's Domestic Medicine; or, Poor Man's Friend\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn C. Gunn | New revised, improved and enlarged edition, 1860 | Historical PDF scan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat did families do when the nearest doctor was miles away? In nineteenth-century America, books like \u003cem\u003eGunn's Domestic Medicine\u003c\/em\u003e promised to put the physician's knowledge into the hands of ordinary households.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1830 and issued in numerous editions, John C. Gunn's extraordinarily popular domestic medical guide combined practical household medicine, medicinal roots and herbs, and an unmistakably Victorian philosophy of health. This 1860 edition invites you into a world where the treatment of illness sat alongside discussions of fear, hope, anger, jealousy and love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy this book is remarkable\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMedicine for the home:\u003c\/strong\u003e a revealing account of how nineteenth-century families were encouraged to understand illness and care for the sick.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBotanical traditions:\u003c\/strong\u003e historical descriptions of medicinal roots and herbs of the United States.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe passions and the body:\u003c\/strong\u003e the opening chapters explore how emotions such as fear, hope, joy, anger, jealousy and grief were thought to affect health.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA window into everyday life:\u003c\/strong\u003e discover the beliefs, anxieties and medical assumptions of an earlier age, including remedies that would be considered dangerous today.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne particularly striking passage notes that fear can disturb digestion and the nervous system; elsewhere, Gunn treats jealousy as a subject worthy of lengthy medical discussion. These observations make the book as interesting to historians of psychology and social life as to readers of botanical history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eEdition and format\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e John C. Gunn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginal work first published:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1830\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdition reproduced:\u003c\/strong\u003e New revised, improved and enlarged edition, 1860\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Downloadable PDF of a historical printed volume\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCollection:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Ancestral Library\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note:\u003c\/strong\u003e This is a historical document supplied for research, education and curiosity, not a modern medical manual. It includes obsolete medical theories and potentially dangerous substances, treatments and instructions. Seek qualified medical advice for health concerns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor lovers of forgotten remedies, historical herbalism and the curious history of the human body.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hearthwise Herbals","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64209638228298,"sku":null,"price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1088\/9940\/2058\/files\/Screenshot_2026-11-03_161157.png?v=1793723454","url":"https:\/\/hearthwiseherbals.com\/products\/digital-product-21","provider":"Hearthwise Herbals","version":"1.0","type":"link"}