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New Warren's Household Physician. Enlarged and Revised; for the Use of Physicians, Families, Mariners, and Miners: Being a Brief Description, in Plain Language, of All the Diseases of Men, Women and Children, With the Latest and Most Approved.
Boston, MA: A.I. Bradley and Company, [1900]. Revised. Hardcover. The Household Physician by Ira Warren and A. E. Small, is a comprehensive, late 19th-century home medical guide for families, planters, seamen, and travelers, explaining common diseases and treatments in plain language. It was a popular, subscription-based book that provided practical health advice for its time, blending formal medicine with eclectic and homeopathic remedies, and was updated in later editions with new illustrations and editorial stances against dangerous substances like calomel. Contain full color physiological flat plates. Inscribed to Dr. Ted Mohlie (midcoast Maine physician) from Pat and Lewis Jones from Jefferson, ME. Very Good-. No DJ as Issued. Loose and shaken boards, almost detached, chipping and loss to upper, moderate shelf/edge wear (corners through), toning, moderate fraying at head and heel, else tight, bright and unmarred. Quarter red leather over boards. Large thick 8vo. 984pp., [28] leaves. Illus. (b/w, color plates, frontis). Index. Color flap plates. Item #13819
Price: $150.00