Assembled by Pennsylvania apothecary and printer Christopher Sauer Jr. (1721-1784), this is the first American herbal. A system of botanical medical cures and remedies based on the use of herbs, it is rooted in the medical thinking of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance and was an herbal for the working class who could not afford to see doctors. This new edition offers revisions, corrections to some of the botanical nomenclature, and full-color images reproduced from an herbal compendium owned by Philadelphia apothecary Tobias Hirte. The intention of this edition is to offer inaccessible text for the use of cultural and medical historians as well as those interested in botanical medicine during the colonial period. It offers Sauer's commonsense advice on herbs and their uses, but does not advocate self-medication.(414pp. color illus. index. hardcover. PA German Cultural Heritage Center, 2024 rev. 2^nd ed.)