Category: Home health

Back-Bone; Photographed from 'The Scalpel'

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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You are what you eat - a Volvelle

By: Hohensee, Adolphus

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Washington, DC, Wheel O' Life Co. : 1941

Seller ID: 1091

1941 YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT VOLVELLE PROMOTING ADOLPHUS QUALITY HEALTH FOODS HIGHLIGHTS THE IMPORTANCE OF MICRONUTRIENTS TO HEALTH. Ten inches in diameter, printed in 2 colors on heavy cardboard, with holes revealing mineral and vitamin content of various foods and descriptions of the health benefits of each. The back of the volvelle lists combinations of foods that are recommended and cautioned. Condition is near fine, with a minor bend at the top point. ADOLPHUS HOHENSEE (1901-1967) was born in Poland and at some point lived in the Washington, D.C. area. He had very little early schooling. Yet...
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Euthanasy; or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

By: Mountford, William

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Boston, W.M. Crosby and J.P. Nichols : 1849

Seller ID: 1072

END OF LIFE CONSIDERATIONS BY ENGLISH UNITARIAN PREACHER WHO MOVED TO BOSTON IN 1850, A YEAR AFTER PUBLISHING THIS BOOK IN 1849. 7 inches tall hardcover, full leather binding, gilt ruled borders to covers, spine with raised bands, gilt leather title label, aeg, inscription to front flyleaf, Mrs. Washburn, with the respects of N. J. Allen and E. A. H. Allen, Bridgewater, Aug. 15th, 1849. xii, 466 pp. Front joint starting, faint water stain bottom corner of front endpapers and text pages, scattered light foxing, overall very good minus. WILLIAM MOUNTFORD (1816 1885) was an English Unitarian pre...
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Category: Home health

Back-Bone; Photographed from 'The Scalpel'

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

You are what you eat - a Volvelle

Euthanasy; or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life