The recipes for cures found in Primitive Physic were copied and republished in American self-help medical manuals throughout the 19th century. These popular works continued to warn the public against the regular medical community. A particularly biting commentary was expressed in John C. Gunn's volume, Gunn's Domestic Medicine, which went through 100 editions between 1830 and 1870. Along with these severe criticisms, these health care texts proposed some very unusual sounding remedies, such as Josiah Richardson's 1828 cure for asthma.