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The Laws of Health

By: Alcott WA;

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, John P. Jewett and Co.: 1857

Seller ID: 124

1857 PRE-CIVIL WAR BOOK ON HYGIENE FOR FAMILIES AND SCHOOLS: HOW TO STAY HEALTHY. 8 inches tall hardcover, x, 424 pages, original brown cloth binding, blindstamped design on covers, gilt title on spine, pencil signature and inscription of 'E. C. Gaines, Bethel, Mi, Sept 1858 / Phyllis bought this'. Minimal chipping top of spine, scattered light foxing, small stain to edge of later pages, otherwise unmarked and very good. CONTENTS: Growth and Renovation; Muscular Motion; Rest and Sleep; Digestion and Nutrition; The Circulation of the Blood; Breathing and Ventilation; The Laws of the Skin and of...
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Back-Bone; Photographed from 'The Scalpel'

By: Dixon EH;

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Robert M. de Witt: 1866

Seller ID: 151

1866 SCARCE ANTHOLOGY OF ARTICLES FROM POPULAR AMERICAN MEDICAL JOURNAL WITH ORIGINAL PHOTO OF AUTHOR. 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, xvii, 396 pages, brown cloth binding with spine gilt. Original 2 1/4 x 3 3/4 inch original albumen photographic portrait of the author tipped as frontispiece. Dedication to Horace Greeley [editor of the New York Tribune] and Peter Cooper [American industrialist]. Spine ends frayed, light soiling of covers, bookplate to front paste-down, lacking front free endpaper, old water stains to corners of pages. Overall good. CONTENTS (selected): Scenes in Western practice...
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The Care and Feeding of Children. A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses

By: Holt, L.Emmet

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton-Century Co., Inc.: 1937

Seller ID: 427

HISTORIC LITTLE BOOK FOR MOTHERS: HOLT'S CARE AND FEEDING OF CHILDREN PRECEEDED DR. SPOCK'S BABY AND CHILD CARE. 7 inches tall hardcover, olive cloth binding, gilt title to cover, 259 pages. Covers and spine faded, corners bumped, endpapers browned, binding tight and text clean and unmarked, no jacket, good+. PREFACE: The present revision has been prepared in order to keep the catechism abreast of enlightened medical opinion. A number of changes have been made throughout the book, the most significant of which are concerned with infant feeding. Here raw cow's milk has been virtually abandoned,...
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Physicians' Anatomical Aid, Patented

By: Knox, James Suydam, Graham, David Wilson and Owens, John E.

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Chicago, Western Publishing House: 1888

Seller ID: 754

1888 (1889?) ANATOMICAL FLAP BOOK COMPLETE WITH ALL COLOR SECTIONS OF MALE AND FEMALE ANATOMY IN LOCKING PORTFOLIO. 38x28 cm pebbled black cloth over boards, gilt title label to cover, with brass lock on cover (lacking flap inserting into lock). Covers worn with edges frayed, exposing underlying card. Illustrations with fold-out sections complete with some surface wear. Front paste-down: illustration of body (torso) with 11 sections; First page: heavy card with illustration of the head with 6 sections (some double sided), and brass clip; Verso of first page: eye and ear illustrations each with...
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Where There is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook

By: Werner, David

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Palo Alto, Hesperian Foundation: 1990

Seller ID: 792

UNIQUE ILLUSTRATED MANUAL FOR HEALTH CARE IN DEVELOPING WORLD ENVIRONMENTS FAR FROM MEDICAL FACILITIES. 9 3/4 inches tall paper covered volume, color printed covers, 403 pp, illustrated by the author, previous owner signature front flyleaf, no other marks, binding tight, very good. DAVID B. WERNER (born 1934) is author of the book Donde No Hay Doctor (Where There is No Doctor), co-founder and co-director of HealthWrights (based in Palo Alto, California) and Adjunct Associate Professor at Boston University School of Public Health, Department of International Health. A biologist and educator by ...
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