Physical Chart of Pains, Aches and Tender Spots. An Up-to-Date Family Doctor Book, with nine illustrations and 400 Modern and Up-to-Date Recipes For Treating both General and Special Diseases of Men, Women, and Children
by Weaver, Benjamin Franklin
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Dayton, Ohio: The Weaver Publishing House, 1911. 5th edition, revised and enlarged.
1911 CURIOUS ILLUSTRATED HOME HEALTH GUIDE INDEXED BY CHIEF COMPLAINT WITH HUNDREDS OF REMEDIES.
11 1/2 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth binding with decorative title to cover, [5]-52 pp, CONTENTS: Physical Chart: Weights and Measures, Table of Doses for Children, Alimentatry Canal, Treatments [numbered 101 - 433, Index of Diseases, Diseases of Women, Diseases of Children]. Wear to corners and spine ends, hinges starting, ink notation verso of front flyleaf and inscription of patient names following several recipes (John Horner and Mrs. John Horner), titles of several recipes circled, ink blot margin of p 42; otherwise tightly bound with clean pages; good+. LAID IN: newspaper clippings taped to 8x11 inch Milk Wanted dairy card. An interesting early 20th century home health guide with recipes for treatment of every ailment from Impaction of ear-wax to St. Vitus Dance and Dropsy with Feeble Heart Action. This book is included in a listing of 3 publications by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WEAVER (b. 1839) in Christopher Hoolihan, An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform (2001) Boydell & Brewer, University of Rochester Press.
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- Biomed Rare Books (US)
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- 1124
- Title
- Physical Chart of Pains, Aches and Tender Spots. An Up-to-Date Family Doctor Book, with nine illustrations and 400 Modern and Up-to-Date Recipes For Treating both General and Special Diseases of Men, Women, and Children
- Author
- Weaver, Benjamin Franklin
- Format/Binding
- Cloth binding
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 5th edition, revised and enlarged
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Weaver Publishing House
- Place of Publication
- Dayton, Ohio
- Date Published
- 1911
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- medicine; home health; illustration; America
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