The Herbal Therapeutics Research Library is one of America’s premier private libraries with over 8,000 volumes and 12,000 articles on file on the topics of Medical Botany, Ethnobotany, Economic Botany, Eclectic, Thomsonian, & Herbal Medicine, as well as holdings on the History of Medicine, Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, and phytochemistry.  Part of our commitment to education is to make available information on the above topics that is rare, out-of-print, and difficult to access.

Downloadable files in .pdf format:

Botanic Medicine

A Handy Reference Book, Joseph S Niederkorn (219 kb)

The Botanic Pharmacopoeia, John G. Hatfield, (320 kb)

Materia Medica Vegetabilis, E.F. Steinmetz, 1954:
   -Volume I (1.1MB)
   -Volume II (932 kb)
  - Volume III (740KB)

A Practitioner's Handbook of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Thomas S. Blair, M.D., 1907 (324 KB)

Report On The Indigenous Medical Botany of Massachusetts", Stephen W. Williams, MD, From The American Medical Association Transactions #2-1849. (144kb)

Eclectic Medicine 

Specific Diagnosis and Specific Medication, Fyfe, J.W., M.D., (8.2MB)

Favorite Remedies Used in Treatment of Influenza, Lloyd Brothers, 1919 (104 KB)

Valuable Remedies for Influenza, Grippe and "Common Colds",  William N. Mundy, MD, (370KB)

The American Eclectic Practice of Medicine as Applied to
the Diseases of Domestic Animals, Nelson N. Titus, (1.7 MB)

American Medicinal Plants-New Version  Harvey Wilkes Felter, MD
Reprinted from the Eclectic Medical Journal (524KB)

Colloidum Crataegus, Lloyd Brothers, 1904 (84 KB)

Concerning the Materia Medica,   John Uri Lloyd
  (Reprinted from the 1934-1935 Eclectic Medical Journal, 64KB)

Echinacea In The Treatment of the Bites of Venomous Serpents, Reptiles and Insects, Joseph S. Niederkorn, MD [Ed.], 1910  (168KB)

Favorite Remedies from the Lloyd Brothers (500kb)

The Gleaner - A Publication Devoted to American Botanical Materia Medica (Lloyd
     Brothers)
-    No 23, October, 1924 (184kb)
-    No 24, February, 1925 (660kb)
-    No 25, July, 1925 (184kb)
-    No 26, September, 1925 (393kb)
-    No 27, January, 1926 (356kb)
-    No 28, May, 1926 (340kb)
-    No 29, September, 1926 (340kb)
-    No 30, March, 1927 (156kb)
-    No 31, September, 1927 (888kb)
-    No 32, February, 1928 (108 kb)
-    No 33, August, 1928 (224 kb)
-    No 34, March, 1929 (160 kb) 
-    No 35, July, 1929 (168kb) 
-     No. 36, 1930 (144kb)
-     No. 37, July, 1930 (92KB)
-     No. 38, April, 1931 (244KB)
-     No. 39, December, 1931 (136KB)
-     No. 40, November, 1932 (144KB)
-     No. 41, October, 1933 (128KB)
-     No. 42, February, 1934 (122KB)
-     No. 43, October, 1934 (120KB)
-     No. 44, January, 1936 (124KB)
-     No. 45, June, 1936 (128KB)
-     No. 46, July, 1937 (248KB)  
-     No. 47, June, 1938 (420kb)

A Journal of Therapeutic Facts for the Busy Doctor, E. Jones
         - Bulletin No 2, December, 1912 (139KB)
         - Bulletin No 3, January, 1913 (139KB)
         - Bulletin No 4, February, 1913 (101KB)
         - Bulletin No 5, March, 1913 (88KB)
         - Bulletin No 6, April, 1913 (55KB)
         - Bulletin No 7, May, 1913 (175KB)
         - Bulletin No 8, June, 1913 (116KB)
         - Bulletin No 9, July, 1913 (121KB)
         - Bulletin No 10, August, 1913 (114KB)
         - Bulletin No 11, September, 1913 (103KB)

The Medicinal Plants of North America,
Revised From the Transactions of the American Eclectic Materia Medica Assoc., Arthur Weir Smith, A.M., MD [Ed.], Vol. 1, 1914. (508kb)

New Remedies (American), John Uri Lloyd, Reprinted from the Eclectic Medical Journal, April 1927, (32KB)

Syllabus of Eclectic Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Frederick J. Locke, Harvey Wilkes Felter, M.D., & John Uri Lloyd, 1901 (768 kb)

Lloyd Brothers Drug Treatises
A Treatise on Collinsonia canandensis, Lloyd Bros., 1904 (84 KB)
A Treatise on Crataegus  Drug Treatise No. XI, Lloyd Bros., 1917 (88 KB)
A Treatise on Macrotys Drug Treatise No. XIII, Lloyd Bros. 1905 (326 KB)
A Treatise on Pulsatilla Lloyd Bros., 1913 (142 KB)
A Treatise on Thuja occidentalis, Lloyd Bros., 1904 (109 KB)

Uses of Some Standard Remedies by Eclectic Physicians  (Extract from Locke's Materia Medica and Therapeutics), 68KB

Ethnobotany 

Navajo Indian Medical Ethnobotany, Leland C. Wyman, & Stuart K. Harris, The University of New Mexico Bulletin, Anthropological Series, Vol. 3, No. 5, June, 1941. (144 KB)

Plants Used as Curatives by Certain Southeastern Tribes, Linda A. Taylor, 496KB

Medicinal Plants of Jamaica, G.F. Asprey, P. Thornton, 1953 (228KB)

 

Thomsonian Medicine/Physiomedicalism.

A Compendium of the New Materia Medica Together With Additional Descriptions of Some Old Remedies, William H. Cook, A.M., M.D. (247KB)
The Diseases of Women & Children,   Sarah A. Webb, M.D. (324kb)

Physio-Medical Therapeutics, Materia Medica and Pharmacy,   T.J. Lyle,  A.M., M.D., 1932 rpt.

 

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