Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1961. Small octavo (18 x 10.5 cm.), 178 pages. FIRST EDITION. A compilation of medical folklore, based on Fisher's lifelong collection of remedies, medicinals, herbs, cures, etc. In publisher's red, patterned paper over blue-green cloth Generally dusty, and with light soil to edges. In a lightly soiled, edge chipped, and price-clipped dust jacket, and with a small chip to the spine panel, not effecting text.....

[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.....

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.....

New York: Orange Judd Comapny, 1903. Thick octavo, 506, [6] pages. Illustrated. Later printing. A survey of all aspects of tobacco, from history and trade through various varieties of leaf and their uses. Some light foxing throughout, otherwise very good, in handsome, bright and clean publisher's gilt-stamped brown cloth.

Middletown, MD: Printed by J.D. Koogle, 1858. Duodecimo (16.5 x 11.5 cm.), 224, 37, [5], iii pages. Includes separate indexes for each of three sections. Small woodcut illustrations. Second printing, now with A Supplement... 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 of rabid dogs.".....

Boston: Printed by Rand, Avery, & Co., 1872. Duodecimo (17 x 11 cm.), [4], 3-69, [1] pages. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A collection of prescriptions, formulae, and receipts, gathered by the author for the use of the traveler. "The language is in plain English, so that every person can go into the woods and pastures, and collect roots and herbs suited to his disease; or they can be obtained at.....

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......

Boston: Mellin's Food Company, 1905. Octavo (20.5 x 16 cm.), 46 pages. Illustrated throughout. An interesting how-to on the alteration of cow's milk for consumption by infants and children. Mellin's Food products are added to the cow's milk to alter the alkalinity and,supposedly, improve digestibility. Near fine, in publisher's brown and black-decorated light brown cloth.