Warren's Household Physician; adapted to the use of Physicians, Families, Mariners, Travellers, Gold Miners and Others
Maker
1. Ira Warren
2. Draper
Date
1986
Description
A large leather-bound volume authored by Ira Warren M.D. (Massachusetts). The spine reads in gold text "WARREN'S HOUSEHOLD PHYSICIAN / FOR PHYSICIANS FAMILIES MARINERS MINERS".
Within the front cover is a bookplate reading "THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE / MEDICAL HISTORY UNIT / PRESENTED BY / THE LIBRARY OF BARRIE THOMPSON / FEBRUARY 2003"
Within the first few pages, Barrie Thompson has adhered newspaper clippings and articles eg. "A remedy for that Dread-Disease Small-Pox", "Kerosene Cure for Diptheria" "How to Cure Influenze - the Use of Eucalyptus Oil (April 26 1892)" and "Cancer and Vaccination"
The front page of the book reads "The Household Physician; / adapted to the use of / Physicians, Families, Mariners, Travellers, Gold Miners, / and others / comprising a brief / Medical Treatise in Plain Language / of all the / Diseases of Men, Women, and Children,/ with the / Newest and Most Approved Methods of Curing Them, / including the / allopathic, homeopathic, hydropathic, / and / botanic remedies, / to which is added, / Physical Culture and Gymnastic Exercises. / By Ira Warren AM MD / Fellow of the Massachusets Medical Society, Etc / Illustrated / By Thirty Six Figures of Eight Splendid Colour Lithograph Plates, / And three hundred and forty two engravings . / Seventeenth thousand / Boston: Bradley, Dayton & Co, 20 Washington ST / Melbourne: R & J Burr, Publishing Agent, Depot: W. B. Stephens, 15 Collins ST West. / San Francisco: / R. Guy McLellan, 305 Montgomery ST. / 1864"
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