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The Electropathic Guide: Prepared with Particular Reference to Home Practice; Containing Hints on the Care of the Sick, the Treatment of Disease, and the Use of Electricity; with Full Directions for Treating Over 100 Diseases
by Wells, S.M
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
La Crosse, WI: S. M. Wells, 1879. Stated fifth edition 1879. Medical quackery. Directions for curing disease with use of the author's Electro-Medical Instruments and Apparatus. Final two pages advertise Electro-Medical Instruments and Apparatus including Wells' Battery and a full case of treating instrucments. Brown cloth lettered in gilt, 96 pages plus ads. Remarkably nice condition with light rubbing to corners and spine ends, good hinges, tight text block, clean pages, no names or other markings.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 047370
- Title
- The Electropathic Guide: Prepared with Particular Reference to Home Practice; Containing Hints on the Care of the Sick, the Treatment of Disease, and the Use of Electricity; with Full Directions for Treating Over 100 Diseases
- Author
- Wells, S.M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- S. M. Wells
- Place of Publication
- La Crosse, WI
- Date Published
- 1879
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- MEDICAL QUACKERY ELECTRO-MEDICAL APPARATUS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science, Medicine & Nature;
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Resource Books, LLC
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East Granby, Connecticut
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- Spine
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- Rubbing
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- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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