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18844621New York: A. S. Barnes & Company 1884 . First edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo 276 pages quarter red calf cloth <br/><br/>NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH Dr. Steele's Abridged Hygienic Physiology of the same year a shorter version of this title. Steele was famous as a textbook writer. "This work is not prpared for the use of medical students but for the instruction of youth in the principles which underlie the preservation of health and the formatio of correct physical habits - Preface." 4 chromolitihographs quite well done ! numerous wood engravings. "Edited and endorsed for the use of schools in accordance with the recent legislation upon this subject by the Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction of the W.C.T.U. of the United States." A. S. Barnes & Company hardcover
18434582Bennington VT: J. I.C. & A. S. C. Cook 1843. First edition. Hardcover. Good. .12mo 304 pages contemporary full calf boards dampstained newly rebacked with leather Inked name of Rowley Cobleskill NY on blank leaf. Very Scarce. <br/><br/>This is the only edition of this work and it was published in the year of the death of Samuel Thomson herbalist and founder of the Thomsonian System. Wilcox had his office on Main St. in East Bennington VT. " Be your own physician ! . It will not only save your lives but your money. . We have endeavored to make the language explain itself. Besides you will remember that all the words we use may be found in Webster's Dictionary." As a self-taught herbalist he had remarkable success curing sick people. Also he discovered lobelia inflata Indian tobacco was useful as an asthmador and for cardiac reasons. J. I.C. & A.. S. C. Cook hardcover