Simmonite, William Joseph, A.M., Professor of Mathematics, Astronomy, Astro-Meteorology, and the Classics ‘Medical Botany or Herbal Guide to Health – Explaining the Natural Pathology of Disease, with Hundreds of Herbal Recipes – Thus Making Every Man His Own Physician’ Revised and Modernized Edition – W. Foulsham & Co., Ltd. 61, Fleet Street, E. C., London, 1917.
Original cloth (moderate wear to extremities of spine and outer corners of boards). [3 leaves] + [pp. vii-viii] + [pp. 9-65] + [1] + [pp. 67-87] + [1 page of advertisements] + [pp. 89-127] + [1 page of advertisements]
About this Book Scan
Carefully scanned in full colour from our original printing of the 1917 edition of Foulsham’s posthumous new edition of Simmonite’s herbal work.
Prominent 19th century English astrologer William Joseph Simmonite was also a keen naturopath, as well as being a schoolteacher. The original edition of his Medical Botany is exceptionally rare, but the Foulsham edition of the 1890s brought his little herbal to a new audience and was such a success that it enjoyed further printings.
This is our faithful scan of the 1917 printing, which was reset from the original undated Foulsham edition of the 1890s. Bargain-priced to reflect the realisation that it is not the earliest edition though it is still more than a century old.