Synopses & Reviews
Healing wisdom from more than 250 rural doctors, nurses, midwives, and herbalists.
Oatmeal, cucumbers, ammonia, lemon, gin-soaked raisins-- timeless solutions to more than 200 common aches, pains, illnesses.
This authoritative medical guide delivers a wagonload of home remedy information along with plenty of country wit and wisdom. More than 250 doctors, nurses, dentists, and other medical professionals contributed their knowledge and experience to this useful manual. Delightful folksy anecdotes from country doctors are sure to make you smile as you follow the practical, sound medical advice of some of the best and brightest physicians practicing in rural America.
Synopsis
This authoritative medical guide delivers a wagonload of home remedy information in this witty manual that includes a thorough index and helpful illustrations. Folksy anecdotes from country doctors will make you smile as you follow the sound medical advice of the best physicians practicing today.
About the Author
Jay Heinrichs, former editor of
National Wildlife magazine and
Dartmouth Alumni Magazine and group publisher of the Ivy League Magazine Network, is the author of
The Yankee Way to Simplify Your Life.