Madame Young's Guide to Health

Amelia Young

Thoroughwort for fevers, peach leaves and twigs, snakehead, prickly ash: Amelia Young's family herbal reads like a kitchen garden turned medicine chest. Alongside the plants she covers pregnancy, childbirth, and the everyday health questions women brought to her door. A rare nineteenth century guide written by a woman for the women running the household. Domestic medicine as it was actually practiced, remedy by remedy.