[Sweden – various places: various, 1869-1889]. Five works bound together, all FIRST EDITIONS. Henrik Gahn (1820-1874) invented the first antiseptics to be used in Sweden, which he called “Aseptin” and “Amykos”, the first being a secret preparation containing boric acid, used for preserving articles of food, which he patented in 1869; the second for use as a mouthwash and disinfectant. The eponymous firm based on his work, Henrik Gahn AB.....

London: Printed by T. B. [Thomas Bradyll] for the author, and are to be sold at his House in Hewes-Court in Black-Friers, 1682. Two works in one volume. Second separate dated title page, but pagination is continuous. Octavo (15.5 x 10 cm.), (16), 1-352, (2), 3-80, 1-32 pages. Collation: A-Ec8, 2A-2B8. Illustrated with one full page woodcut (Aa4). ~ FIRST EDITION. This issue has "chyrurgions" in line 11 and "cherry-vvine".....

Lancaster [PA]: Gedruckt für den Verfasser, von Johann Bär, 1831. Octavo (18 x 10.5 cm.), [2], [3]-118 pages. ~ FIRST EDITION. Compendium of popular folk remedies compiled by Heinen from various sources. “The author in his preface states that the book is written in non -technical language for the German farmer and ruralist… the book contains more than one hundred headings, listing various illnesses, giving their symptoms, causes, and treatment.....

New York: Published by Samuel Henry; [Printed by E. Low], 1814. Octavo (21 x 13 cm.), vi, [3], 10-393 pages (with page iv misprinted as page v). Illustrations (seven in color). "Index" is actually a table of contents (its alphabetic order approximate). List of subscribers ("Catalogue," pages [391]-393). Issued with the illustrations either colored or plain. The seven colored illustrations found here are the work of a later contributor. ~.....

New York: Humphreys' Homeopathic Medicine Co., 1924. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), iv, [1], 24-505, [10], [10] pages. Advertisements. Index. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Later edition, stated Revised and Enlarged. The Homeopathic Mentor was issued in its original version in 1956. Humphreys was the founder of the Humphreys' Homeopathic Medicine Company. Humphreys was the personal physician to Theron Tilden Pond, developer of Pond's Extract, derived from witch hazel, and.....

London: Simpkin & Marshall, Stationers' Court, 1861. Duodecimo (16 x 11 cm.), 61 pages. Illustrated frontispiece printed in blue and one chromolithograph plate. Publisher's advertisement. ~ Later printing, (originally published in 1857). This small book served as an advertisement for the author's services in restoring teeth with "Flexible Coralite Gums," which replaced traditional, and much less flexible gold or bone gums. Folding-flap frontispiece printed in blue depicts before and after.....

New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1902. Small octavo (20 x 13 cm.), xvi, 244 pages. An early printing (the first was issued in 1901), of this influential work. "The keynote of this book is Proctitis, inflammation of the anal and rectal canals" (page xv). Much of this text appeared originally in various issues of Health (N.Y.) and Omega (N.Y.) between 1898 and 1900. Jamison was an 1878 graduate of the Medical.....

Boston: Joseph Burnett & Co.; [printed by] Forbes Co., 1878. Booklet in stapled, chromolithographed wrapper (11.5 x 7.5 cm.), 40 pages. Illustrated advertisements throughout, Title, date, and publication information from cover. ~ A single issue of an attractive little calendar and promotional booklet produced annually, usually under the title Burnett's Floral Handbook and Ladies Calendar, by the company to advertise its various patent medicines, flavoring extracts for cooking, and hair.....

London: For Richard Wilkin, 1714. Octavo (19 x 12.5 cm.), [16], 218, [13] pages. FIRST EDITION. “Mary Kettilby’s collection of cookery recipes and medicinal and home remedies, from a tasty “green-pease soop, without meat” to gooseberry wine. Households that could not afford French cooks or French cooking came to form a growing audience for books by women that contained unpretentious recipes cut to suit a less costly cloth, for pickling.....

Baltimore, MD: Printed by McCoull & Slater, N.W. corner of Baltimore and Charles Streets, 1857. Duodecimo (16.5 x 11.5 cm.), 226, [4], iii pages. Includes separate indexes for each of three sections. Small woodcut illustrations. FIRST EDITION. A farrier’s manual, really a holistic veterinary manual which includes, formulae, receipts, and prescriptions. The text includes a list of domestic medicines and receipts, for example, Lunar Caustic, "very useful in curing bites.....

Leipzig/Paris: chez Brockhaus/Schubart et Heideloff, 1829. Duodecimo, xvi, 330 pages. First edition in French, translated from the second German edition, revised and corrected. Kreysig was physician to Frédéric Auguste King of the Saxons, from 1803 to 1828. His greatest contribution was to the art of diagnosis. Attractively bound in full calf with gilt decorated spine, red speckled edges. Early previous owner's name, otherwise very good. [OCLC locates thirteen copies, just.....

[New York]: Corrective Eating Society, Inc., 1917. 14 x 10.3 cm, unpaginated [22 pages]. A pamphlet extolling the health benefits of “correct eating” as discovered and defined by the self-described “prophet” of nutritional advancement, Eugene Christian (1860-1930). Christian healed himself through a diet of raw and natural foods, a practice further supported here with testimonials from eleven individuals, including a “middle aged woman”, “bank cashier”, and “suffrage worker”. R.W. Lockwood.....

New York; Richmond, Virginia: MacFadden Publications; [printed by] L.H. Jenkins, Inc., 1928. Octavo (20 x 14 cm.), xii, 372 pages. Illustrated with black and white and duotone photographs, and line drawings in the text. Index. Later printing, originally issued in 1901. Bernarr Macfadden (1868-1955) was a leader in the physical culture movement, which advocated bodybuilding along with attention to health and nutrition. He founded Physical Culture magazine, and authored a......