Category: Medical

Babyology: To the Mothers and Prospective Mothers to whom Fletcher's Castoria Renders a Helpful Service This book is Dedicated by Chas. A. Fletcher

Price: $25.00

Publisher: The Centaur Company : 1917

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.
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Fletcher's Castoria Baby Book

Price: $15.00

Seller ID: 018849

Binding: Soft cover

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.
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Health The Magazine That Builds Body, Mind and Soul Vol. 3. No. 7. July, 1935

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Mountain View, Ca, Pacific Press Publishing : 1935

Seller ID: 018517

Binding: Soft cover

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 Children" by Milo B. Brooks M.D., "Is Man Improving Physically?" by Geor...
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Mon Docteur: Encyclopedie Moderne de Medecine et d'Hygiene; Methodes Scientifiques et Pratiques; Allopathie--Homeopathie--Physiotherapie; Medecine Pratique--Toxicologie; Plantes Medicinales; Hygiene de l'Habitation; Ouvrage illustre de nombreuses planches hors texte en couleurs et de modeles anatomiques demontables executes d'apres nature (Two Volumes)

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Paris, France, Librairie Aristide Quillet : 1938

Seller ID: 025121

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Two volumes, complete. Text in French. Original publisher's dark green cloth-covered boards backed with dark green leather. Gilt lettering on spine. Gilt or dark yellow lettering (possibly faded) and decorations on front cover. 6 1/2" x 9 3/4." All pages of each volume, complete. Volume I: Pages 1-730. Volume II: Pages 731-1455. Many plates and illustrations, complete. There are black-and-white in-text illustrations and plates in black-and-white and color. Additional pages in back of Vol. I for the Table of Contents. Additional pages in back of Vol. II for the Table of Contents and...
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Natures Remedy (NR Tablets)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: St. Louis, Mo, A. H. Lewis Medicine Company

Seller ID: 018469

Binding: Soft cover

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.
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Overweight and Underweight

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

Seller ID: 018120

Binding: Soft cover

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...
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Real Photo Post Card: "St. Helena Sanitarium, Sanitarium, California"

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 022496

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Original black and white photo postcard with sepia tones. Postmarked November 17, 1930 in Sanitarium, California. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." Title printed at the bottom of the image. A red, two-cent George Washington stamp is tipped in on the back. Postcard is used. Postcard is very clean and intact overall except for slight wear at corners and edges. A Very Good copy. This postcard shows the St. Helena Sanitarium in the community of Sanitarium, California. The community of Sanitarium was founded in 1878 by Seventh-day Adventists and was originally called Crystal Springs. There, they opened a ...
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Real Photo Post Card: "View of Valley from St. Helena Sanitarium, Sanitarium, Calif."

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 022495

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Original black and white photo postcard. No date, circa 1920s-1930s. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." Title printed at the bottom of the image. Imprint of "Zan 222" in the lower-right corner of the image. Postcard is unused. Postcard is very clean and intact overall except for a few small wrinkles. A Very Good copy. This postcard shows the scenic landscape of a California valley as viewed from the St. Helena Sanitarium in the community of Sanitarium, California. The community of Sanitarium was founded in 1878 by Seventh-day Adventists and was originally called Crystal Springs. There, they opened a s...
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The Happy Way To Health. A Little Book On How To Live In Harmony With Natural Law. With Suggestions On The Prevention And Cure Of Those Ailments That Come From A Wrong Use Of The Body And From The Improper Selection Of Food. How To Gain Health And How To Keep It. How To Attain The Highest Efficiency In Work And The Greatest Enjoyment In Play.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Niagara Falls, New York, The Shredded Wheat Co. : 1917

Seller ID: 018395

Binding: Soft cover

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.
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The Venereal Peril. A Letter from a Physician to His Son in College.

Price: $37.50

Seller ID: 025104

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's beige paper wrappers with staple binding. No date, circa 1906. 5" x 8." Twelve pages, complete. Pages are very clean and intact except for light age toning and the occasional faint mark from a paper clip. Covers are clean and intact except for light to moderate age toning, a small closed tear measuring 1/4" from the fore-edge on front, and a few faint marks from paper clips. A Very Good copy. "Reprinted from American Magazine, New Series, Vol. I, No. 4, pages 186-190, July, 1906." An anonymous physician's instructive and matter-of-fact letter to his son, in college...
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1894-1919, Twenty-Fifth Year Edition: Laboratory Supplies and Chemicals for Chemists and Bacteriologists

By: A. Daigger & Company

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Chicago, IL, A. Daigger & Company : 1919

Seller ID: 024453

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's gray-beige cloth binding with black lettering on front cover and spine. 7" x 10 1/2." 423 pages, complete. Many black-and-white illustrations, complete. Eight additional pages in the back advertising related books and products. Index in back. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for minuscule age toning, the occasional mark, and a tear at the bottom corner on Pages 81-82 (affects some of the text). Covers are clean and intact overall but have slightly bumped corners, minuscule fraying at head and tail of spine, a darkened spine, and smudges on the front an...
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Original Trade Card - "Alexander's Tonic Pills; Alexander Medicine Co., 14th St. and 6th Ave., N. Y."

By: Alexander Medicine Co.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Donaldson Brothers : 1888

Seller ID: 023418

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Original trade card featuring color illustrations of two young girls holding a fan and apple in a bright, jubilant scene filled with flowers. The back includes a couple half-tone illustrations of pastoral, domestic scenes with people. 3" x 4 1/2." Printer's information on back: "Donaldson Brothers, N.Y." Trade card is very clean and intact except for a small bump in the upper-left corner and slight wear along the crease where the card can be folded. A Fine copy. Trade card promoting Alexander's Tonic Pills, a patent medicine manufactured by the Alexander Medicine Company. The descriptio...
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Memoire sur les ulceres en general

By: Amard, L. V. Frederic

Price: $47.50

Publisher: Paris, France, Chez Mequignon l'aine : 1802

Seller ID: 021943

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Text is in French. Original publisher's beige wrappers. Disbound. 5" x 7 3/4." Fifty-six pages, complete. The last page features a fold-out table summarizing findings on ulcers. Pages are very clean and intact overall. There are a few faint dampstains on the pages, but they barely affect text, if at all. Slight wrinkling to the pages. Excerpt from the Preface, in which the author talks about how ulcers have not been given the same amount of interest or study as other ailments in the sciences: "En general, dans la medicine, comme dans toutes les sciences, on cultive davantage les parti...
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A Century of Progress

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Elkhart, Indiana, Dr. Miles Laboratories, Inc.

Seller ID: 13600

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

32 pages; illustrations; illustrated paper wrapper (6 1/8 x 4 3/4 inch) in color. About the Chicago's World Fair of 1933-34 with ads and testimonials for Dr. Miles' pills and medicines. Very good clean copy.
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Accidents, Emergencies and Illnesses: A Manual for Reference

By: Anonymous

Price: $17.50

Publisher: New York, The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York : 1900

Seller ID: 7974

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Ask Another One

By: Anonymous

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Elkhart, Indiana, Dr. Miles Medical Company

Seller ID: 016437

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Circa 1927. Staple bound pamphlet, 6 x 4 3/4 inches. with color illustration of a man and woman reading the pamphlet on the front and a country scene on the back. Minor chipping, notes in ink on front and back cover. 32 pages, alternating trivia questions with advertisements for Dr. Miles Medical Company pharmaceutical products, including "Nervine" and "Aspir-Mint". Dr. Franklin Miles founded the Dr. Miles Medical Company in Elkhart, Indiana, in 1884. Until the mid-1930's, the sedative Nervine was its most popular product. In 1935, the company changed its name to Mile Laboratories, and became ...
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California Medical-Economic Survey; Formal Report on Factual Data; Presenting Factual Information, Compiled in a Study Made During the Years 1934 and 1935 on the Need of Medical Care By Citizens, on the Distribution of Healing Art Practitioners, and the Economics of Healing Art Care in the State of California; November, 1937

By: Anonymous

Price: $25.00

Publisher: (San Francisco), California Medical Association : 1937

Seller ID: 4238

Binding: Illustrated Wrappers

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...
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Davis Cook Book

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chicago, Illinois,

Seller ID: 11867

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

[16] pages; paper wrapper (4 1/2 x 7 inch) with title on the cover. Advertisements for Magda Toilet Cream, Ajax Tablets, Blood Wine Co. Liver Pills, Cole's Carbolisalve, Mrs. Logan's Rocky Mountain Cough Syrup, Dr. Davis Anti-Headache, and Veterinary Carbolisalve. Three columns of text, one column for the cookbook and two for ads. Minor chipping along the edges, else very good.
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Dr. Miles New Joke Book.

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Elkhart, Indiana, Miles Laboratories, Inc.

Seller ID: 10267

Binding: Soft cover

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.
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Dr. Miles' Cook Book

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Elkhart, Indiana, Dr. Miles Medical Co.

Seller ID: 13578

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Circa 1910. 32 pages; illustrated paper wrapper (6 1/8 x 4 5/8 inch). Evidence of folding along the edge of the pamphlet. Recipes mixed with ads and endorsements for Dr. Miles pills. Very good clan copy.
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Category: Medical