Plain Home Talk About the Human System.Embracing Medical Common Sense Applied to Causes, Prevention, and Cure of Chronic Diseases
by FOOTE, Edward B
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About This Item
New York: Murray Hill Publishing Company, 1889. Hardcover. Fair. Revised edition; original embossed brown cloth over boards; 12mo; pp. i-xxiv, 25-959, [1] publisher's advertisement; 6 chromolithograph color plates, 200 illustrations - full-page and in-line and many woodcut engravings in the text; boards worn and faded; edges of spine and boards rubbed; title page and frontis portrait missing, else text complete; piece missing off upper right corner of preface page and a closed tear; a few penciled-in notes throughout; pages mostly clean. A fascinating early work on the human system, the different organs, diseases and their prevention, and even marriage and "the philosophy of child-making.
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- Title
- Plain Home Talk About the Human System.Embracing Medical Common Sense Applied to Causes, Prevention, and Cure of Chronic Diseases
- Author
- FOOTE, Edward B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
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- 1
- Publisher
- New York: Murray Hill Publishing Company
- Date Published
- 1889
- Bookseller catalogs
- English Literature:Science; Books:English Literature:Science;
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