Gunn's Domestic Medicine, or Poor Man's Friend, In The Hours of Affliction, Pain and Sickness. This Book Points Out in Plain Language, Free From Doctor's Terms, The Diseases of Men, Women, and Children, and The Latest and Most Approved Means Used In Their Cure and is Expressly Written for The Use of Families in The Western and Southeastern States, It Also Contains Descriptions of The Medicinal Roots and herbs of The Western and Southern Country, and How They are To Be Used in The Cure of Diseases: Arranged onm a New and Simple Plan, By Which the Practice of Medicine is Reduced to Principles of Common Sense. Fourth Edition.

"Gunn's Domestic Medicine, or Poor Man's Friend, In The Hours of Affliction, Pain and Sickness. This Book Points Out in Plain Language, Free From Doctor's Terms, The Diseases of Men, Women, and Children, and The Latest and Most Approved Means Used In Their Cure and is Expressly Written for The Use of Families in The Western and Southeastern States, It Also Contains Descriptions of The Medicinal Roots and herbs of The Western and Southern Country, and How They are To Be Used in The Cure of Diseases: Arranged on a New and Simple Plan, By Which the Practice of Medicine is Reduced to Principles of Common Sense." Fourth Edition by John C. Gunn.

"Gunn’s Domestic Medicine, or Poor Man’s Friend, In the Hours of Affliction, Pain and Sickness" by John C. Gunn, Fourth Edition, is a practical 19th-century guide to the treatment of diseases affecting men, women, and children. Written in plain language and intended for families in the Western and Southeastern United States, the book explains common illnesses and their treatments while emphasizing a simple, accessible approach to medicine. It also provides descriptions of the medicinal roots and herbs of the Western and Southern country, including directions for their use in treating disease.

Fourth Edition. 8vo. (4.75" x 7.875"), 604 pp. 1834, Madisonville, TN: Henderson & Johnston: Full tan tree calf. Spine with six gilt-rule bands and gilt lettering to a light tan leather label in the second compartment.

The binding shows edgewear, with bumped and rubbed corners worn through to the boards and small loss. The head of the spine is chipped with small loss, and the upper joint is starting at the head. The upper edges of both boards are chipped with loss to the boards. Boards are scuffed, rubbed, and somewhat soiled. Evidence of sticker or bookplate removal to the front pastedown; rear pastedown is lifting from the lower corner without loss.

The text is heavily foxed and toned, with biopredation/worm holes extending from page 357 through to the rear board. Marginal stains and small closed tears occur throughout. No plates are present.

A fascinating example of 19th-century American domestic medicine, particularly notable for its treatment of medicinal roots and herbs found in the Western and Southern United States.