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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 Science of Life; or, Self-Preservation. A Medical Treatise on Nervous and Physical Debility, Spermatorrhoea, Impotence, and Sterility, with Practical Observations on the Treatment of Diseases of the Generative Organs

By: Hayes, Albert H.

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Boston, Peabody Medical Institute: 1881

Seller ID: 302

1881 BEAUTIFULLY BOUND SEXUAL PHYSIOLOGY BOOK FOR MEN, WARNING OF THE DANGERS OF MASTURBATION. 6 3/4 inches tall hardcover, highly decorative gilt cover and spine, all edges gilt, laid in folding facsimile of author's qualification certificates and tipped in copy of a fancy medallion honoring the author for his discovery of new remedial agencies, in the treatment of nervous affections. Facing title page: Particular Notice: The readers of this book are hereby cautioned that a spurious wort bearing the title Science of Life, or Self-Preservation, is advertised in the Dominion by irresponsible p...
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The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care

By: Spock, Benjamin

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce: 1946

Seller ID: 419

SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF SPOCK'S BABY AND CHILD CARE, WHICH SOLD OVER 50 MILLION COPIES IN THE 20TH CENTURY. 8 inches tall hardcover, original blue cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, no dust jacket, 527 pages, illustrations by Dorothea Fox. Cover and spine edges rubbed, corners bumped, light soiling to edges, binding tight, pages unmarked, overall very good in custom archival mylar cover. LISTED IN ALL-TIME 100 NONFICTION BOOKS (100 best and most influential written in English since 1923, the beginning of TIME magazine): The debate over whether American parents are too permissive beg...
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Advice to the People in General, with Regard to their Health, translated from the French edition of Dr. Tissot's Avis au Peuple, &c. by J. Kirkpatrick, M.D.

By: Tissot, Samuel Auguste

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London, T. Becket and P.A. DeHondt: 1765

Seller ID: 177

1765 FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE GREATEST MEDICAL BEST-SELLER OF THE 18TH CENTURY. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover,xxxii, 608 pages, full leather binding, spine with raised bands with gilt leather label. joints cracked but secure, light foxing to first and last pages, otherwise very good. SAMUEL AUGUSTE ANDRE DAVID TISSOT (1728 - 1797) was a notable 18th-century Swiss physician. A well reputed Calvinist Protestant neurologist, physician, professor and Vatican adviser who practiced in the Swiss city of Lausanne. He wrote on the diseases of the poor, on masturbation, on the diseases of the men ...
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