Author:William Alcott

William Alcott
(1798–1859)

William Alcott

Works

• The Young House-keeper; Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery
• Confessions of a School Master (1839)
• The Young Man's Guide (1839)
• The Young Woman's Guide
• The Use of Tobacco: Its Physical, Intellectual, and Moral Effects on the Human System (1836)
• Art of Good Behavior (1848)
• The Young Housekeeper (1842)
• The Young Mother Or Management of Children in Regard to Health
• Tea And Coffee: Their Physical, Intellectual and Moral Effect on the Human System and Are They Injurious?
• Adventures of Lot, the Nephew of Abraham
• Familiar Letters to Young Men on Various Subjects.: Designed as a Companion to The Young Man's Guide
• Trust in the Lord; Or the Story of Elijah and the Ravens
• Stories of Eliot and the Indians
• Lectures on Life and Health, Or, The Laws and Means of Physical Culture (1853)
• The House I Live in; The first Anatomy Book for the General Public
• Forty years in the wilderness of pills and powders, or, The cogitations and confessions of an aged physician (1859) [Autobiography]

Works about Alcott

• "Alcott, William Alexander," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Alcott, William Alexander," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1891)
• "Alcott, William Alexander," in The Biographical Dictionary of America, (ed.) by Rossiter Johnson, Boston: American Biographical Society (1906)
• "Alcott, William Alexander," in American Medical Biographies, (ed.) by Howard A. Kelly & Walter L. Burrage, Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Co. (1920)