1852 ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE. Female Medical Pioneers, Native American Herbalism, &c. Preaching Anderson was well-known and a

Anderson was well-known and a long-time devotee of "Eclectic Medicine

Joseph Sewall

included is a very rare variant six panel map of the explorations of Lewis and Clark

As They Existed at the Close of the Eighteenth

1852 ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE. Female Medical Pioneers, Native American Herbalism, &c. Preaching Anderson was well-known and aThe Eclectic Journal of Medicine sits at a fascinating crossroads in American medical history. The early 1850s were the peak years of the "Eclectic" medical movement; a reform school that arose in direct opposition to regular medicine, which was dominated by aggressive interventions like bloodletting, mercury purges (calomel), and tartar emetic. Eclectics drew heavily on botanical remedies, many derived from Native American plant knowledge, and