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By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.: 0
Seller ID: 018120
Condition: Fine
Original yellow wrapper with blue lettering on front cover. 5 1/4 X 7 3/4 inches. 32 pages. Contents of this copy are, the causes of overweight, the dangers of overweight, danger in using reducing drugs, how to reduce safely and sanely, special care needed by young people, the body's need for food, food selections, reducing without discomfort, low-calorie menus, maintenance allowance, exercise, constipation, what is correct weight, underweight, high-calorie menus, food tables, average weight according to height and age and ten exercises for reducing. Black pen and rubber stamp marks on the bac... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Niagara Falls, New York, The Shredded Wheat Co.: 1917
Seller ID: 018395
Condition: Very Good
Original color illustrated wrapper showing a family on the front cover and Black lettering on the front cover. 5 X 6 3/4 inches. 102 pages with 6 pages of black and white photographs and 2 pages of color illustrations. This copy explains how to live a healthy life. It also explains about the Shredded Wheat factory's. Mild discoloration on some pages. Binding is tight. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo, A. H. Lewis Medicine Company: 0
Seller ID: 018469
Condition: Fine
Original color and black and white wrapper with red lettering on the front cover. Single sheet. Folded copy measures, 3 X 6 inches, unfolded copy measures 25 X 6 inches. Copy includes several black and white and color illustrations. Copy contains a brief history of NR Tables and the different functions of the stomach and digestion. A small rubbed spot on the lower edge on the back. Copy is clean. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Mountain View, Ca, Pacific Press Publishing: 1935
Seller ID: 018517
Condition: Fine
Original color wrapper with illustrations of a man, woman and dog on the front cover. 8 1/2 X 11 1/2 inches. 26 pages. Contents in this issue, "A Doctors Afternoon" by The Village Doctor, "What Makes You Head Ache?" by Arthur N. Donaldson, "Hydrotherapy For Infections And Blood Poisoning" by George K. Abbott, M.D., "Beauty (Poem)" by Rna S. Travais, "Say A-A-A-AH Please" by Charles C. Prince, M.D., "Finicky Eaters" by Betty E. Neufeld, "Health News", "How Doctors Relax" by Morris Fishbein, M.D., "Beautiful Bodies For Your Chil... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Centaur Company: 1917
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 018848
Condition: Very Good
Original wrappers. Illustrated throughout. Castoria is described as "a harmless substitute for castor oil." 32 double column pages of advice for the new mother, including four pages of "Astrological; Indications." 6 x 7 inches. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: 0
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 018849
Condition: Very Good
No date, but circa 1929. Inside cover form filled out for a baby named Loraine Farley, born April 3, 1929 in Waubay, South Dakota. Castoria is described as a "harmless substitute for castor oil." Advice for parenting, diet, excercise and general health. 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches. Illustrated. 32 pages. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Scio, Ohio, American Pharmaceutical Association: 1914
Seller ID: 3396
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. Illustrations. Annual reports for the years 1912 through 1916. Five volumes. 541 to 803 pages. Volume 1, page 121 has small hole in text; volume 3 has slight fading to front cover; volume 4 has spotting to covers; volume 5 has spotting and slight wear to covers. Books also contain latest information in the field of pharmaceuticals, materia medica, information on inorganic and organic chemistry; etc. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $25.00
Publisher: (San Francisco), California Medical Association: 1937
Seller ID: 4238
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
174-pages plus pages i-xivi. Inked stamp imprint on front cover. Contents include: Purpose and Scope of the Study; Distribution of Health Facilities; Professional Incomes and Private Practice; The Organization of Medical Services; Conclusions and Recommendations; etc. Numerous tables including: Distribution of Physicians in California in 1934 by Counties; Hospitals in the United States, According to Size; Family Medical Payments; Total and Average Family Indebtedness; Status of Practice of Dentists Replying; Type of Practice of Osteopaths Replying; Average Charges of Practicing Doctors of Medi... View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $17.50
Publisher: New York, The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York: 1900
Seller ID: 7974
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Publisher's blue ribbed cloth with gilt lettering. Contains alphabetical listings for: Accidents; Emergencies; Poisons; Care of Invalids; Remedies and an index. 171 pages. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, The American Society for the Prevention of Disease: 1907
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 8406
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. An attempt to explain health, disease prevention and cures though simple statements. Illustrated. Former owner's bookplate (Dr. William Most, Cheney, Wash.) on front pastedown. 108 pages. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $17.50
Publisher: Philadelphia and London, W.B. Saunders Company:
Seller ID: 8530
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Illustrated (some gruesome). Enjoyable anecdotal accounts of the patients and their maladies. Text pages 613 through 778, plus16 page catalog of other W.B. Saunders books at end. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Meadville, PA, Keystone View Company:
Seller ID: 9313
Condition: Collectible-Good
# 21786 (255). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the hospital and the American battle with disease and the mosquito. A view of the hospital grounds and Ancon Hill behind it. Clean copy save a brown spot on the left photo (1/8 inch across). View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $25.00
Publisher: San Francisco, California, The Sutter Hospital: 1932
Seller ID: 10148
Condition: Collectible-Fine
[12] pages; illustrations; paper wrapper (3 3/4 x 9 inch) with envelope canceled January 26, 1932, 2 cent stamp. Pamphlet discusses the medical plan, along with departments, and fee schedule. Blood tests for $1.75, X-Rays $5-10.00, Operations $75.00, Hospital $2.50 or Home $1.75 visits, and so on. An example of an early health plan. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $17.50
Publisher: Keokuk, Iowa, S.F. Baker & Company:
Seller ID: 10260
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
112 pages; index; tan paper wrapper (4 3/4 x 7 inch). Small tear to the bottom of the spine with folded lower right corner along with a stain to the pages on the corner (1/2 x 1/2 inch). Covers the health of humans in a general way along with some domestic animals recommending S.F. Baker & Co. products as cures to any problems. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Elkhart, Indiana, Miles Laboratories, Inc.:
Seller ID: 10267
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
32 pages; illustrations; paper wrapper (6 x 4 3/4 inch). A joke book with ads for Dr. Miles Nervine and Alka-Seltzer. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $25.00
Publisher: San Francisco, California, Hudyan Remedy Co.: 1900
Seller ID: 10286
Condition: Collectible-Good
32 pages; illustrations; stiff paper wrapper (2 3/4 x 5 inch). Pencil writings on memo pages. Has a calendar for 1900 along with facts about the earth, popular/electoral votes for president in 1896. Filled with ads for vegetable drugs by Hudyan Remedy Co. and there application. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $12.50
Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland, Emerson Drug Co.: 1915
Seller ID: 10372
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Pocket book calendar (2 3/4 x 4 1/2 inch) with 1915-16 calendar, advertisement for bromo-seltzer, multiplication table, blank writing pages, and sheet-music promo list from the drug company. [16] pages; stiff paper wrapper. Very good clean specimen. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Sacramento, California, H.A.Weaver, Printer: 1874
Seller ID: 10373
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
"Fourth Annual . ". 151 pages; illustrations; paper wrapper (chips missing along the spine, 2 inch tear on the last page. Stamp of the California State Library on the cover. Contents: Minutes of the Fourth Annual Meeting; "Report on Public Hygiene and State Medicine" by Dr. Thos. M. Logan; "Removal of a Tumor Involving the Parotid Gland" by Dr. Levi C. Lane; "Contribution to the Botany of California" by H.P. Gibbons; Catalogue of the Officers and Members of the Medical Society. Good overview of the the state of medicine in California. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Lynn, Mass., Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co.:
Seller ID: 10549
Condition: Collectible-Good
32 pages; paper wrapper (4 1/2 x 7 inch) detached, title and illustration on cover. Each page contains a recipe for a different meal with testimonials at the bottom of the page for Pinkman's Vegetable Compound. Circa 1920s. Some browning to the pages due to cheap paper used. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $15.00
Seller ID: 10595
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Engraving, circa 1900s (4 x 5 1/2 inch) of Rufus Pratt Lincoln (1841-1900) of Massachusetts in civilian clothing. Lincoln joined the war in 1862, after graduating from Amherst College, with the Massachusetts Volunteers rising to captain in several months. He fought at Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, and the assault on Petersburg. By 1864 he reached the rank of brevetted lieutenant-colonel for meritorious services. After the war he returned to college and became a doctor after graduating from Harvard in 1868. He became a famous doctor specializing in diseases of the t... View more info
