ON INDIGESTION AND COSTIVENESS; A Series of Hints to both Sexes, on the important, save, and efficacious means of relieving diseases of the digestive organs by LAVEMENTS;with directions.

JUKES, Edward, Esq. Surgeon, 'inventor of the stomach pump'

Verlag: John Churchill, London, 1836

Beschreibung

Half black leather and marbled boards. (1)(key to f/piece)+f/piece (col. anatomical engraving, (bottom line of caption appears cropped)+t.p.+300+f/piece+t.p.+20+7, 3 further col. & 3 uncol. engr. plates in main text, plus a text fig. This followed by 'Remarks on the Invention of the Stomach Pump' and'On Vapour Bathing' (by Wm Seaman of the Royal Baths, Pall Mall). Heraldic plate of Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott on fr. p/down, sm. ink inscription 'J. Innsworth'(?) from the Author 1839' top t.p. F/piece off-set onto t.p. (presumably common to all copies), occ. brown spotting, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked, though the odd lightly penciled marginal line may remain, covers clean, tight and undamaged bar some rubbing/ bumping to edges & extremities and some surface rubbing to centre of boards. An attractive copy of this scarce work. Full title continues '.for the selection and use of apparatuses for their administration: to which are added Observations on the modes of preserving Health and prolonging Life, by Air, Exercise, Sleep, Clothing, Dieting, &c. Some general remarks, and useful Hints, on the Cause, Prevention, and Cure of Obesity: also one-hundred useful family prescriptions'. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 002109

Bibliografische Details

Titel: ON INDIGESTION AND COSTIVENESS; A Series of ...

Verlag: John Churchill, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1836

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Signiert: Inscribed 'from the Author'

Auflage: 5th edition