Ladies' Dispensatory
Leonard Sowerby''s self-healing manual for women, TheLadies'' Dispensatory, emerged in England in 1652 amidst an abundance of medical self-help books for the lay citizen. Written for both the common patient and the amateur health provider, these manuals of home remedies provided their readers with a variety of potential solutions to common ailments or disease. Sowerby''s Dispensatory was written p...
Leonard Sowerby''s self-healing manual for women, TheLadies'' Dispensatory, emerged in England in 1652 amidst an abundance of medical self-help books for the lay citizen. Written for both the common patient and the amateur health provider, these manuals of home remedies provided their readers with a variety of potential solutions to common ailments or disease. Sowerby''s Dispensatory was written p...