STILL JAMES Early Recollections and Life of Dr James Still

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STILL, JAMES. Early Recollections and Life of Dr. James Still. Frontispiece. 274 pages. 8vo, original green cloth; lightly rubbed with some faint mottling; delicate chocolate end-papers intact; early ownership signature and small library stamp, with no other ex-library signs. Philadelphia, 1877

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first edition. James Still (1812-1882) brother of Underground Rail Road conductor and chronicler William Still, was a noted homeopath. Though not a trained or licensed physician, James Still gained a reputation as a distinguished herbalist--a seller of botanical remedies of his own devising, whose superiority gained him a large clientele. Known as the "black doctor of the pinelands," early New Jersey settlers came from miles around to be treated by Dr. Still.