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Leonard Sowerby's self-healing manual for women, The Ladies' 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 primarily for curing women's health problems, and in that regard, focuses heavily on gynecologic problems (the Dispensatory includes numerous preparations for...

Originally published in England in 1656, this self-help medical book was authored by both self-taught healers and physicians. The manual presents folk remedies as well as complex medicinals of the time. The contemporary editors have included a discussion of how this book belonged in the genre of self-help tracts being published in England at that time, how medicinals were prepared and how the remedies covered here differ from those set forth by Culpepper, the best-known herbalist of the time. Targeted toward the mediaeval general public, the original manuscript begins with the premise that...

Originally published in England in 1656, this self-help medical book was authored by both self-taught healers and physicians. The manual presents folk remedies as well as complex medicinals of the time. The contemporary editors have included a discussion of how this book belonged in the genre of self-help tracts being published in England at that time, how medicinals were prepared and how the remedies covered here differ from those set forth by Culpepper, the best-known herbalist of the time. Targeted toward the mediaeval general public, the original manuscript begins with the premise that...