Antique Dictionary Of Medicine, Quain MD, 8th Ed 1884 Women and Children

Description

This Dictionary of Medicine,
Including GENERAL PATHOLOGY, GENERAL THERAPEUTICS, HYGIENE, AND THE DISEASESPECULIAR TO WOMEN AND CHILDREN
was
published in the United States
just after the Post Civil War Era. Eighth Edition of the New York D. Appleton and Company
in
1884.
Published at a time in US History when the 1
st
volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, (A-Ant) is published. Police seize all copies of Leo Tolstoy’s “What I Believe In”,
Susan B. Anthony
addresses
US
House Judiciary Committee arguing for an amendment to the
US
Constitution granting women the right to vote,
the first long distance telephone call is placed from Boston-New York, the London debtors prison is closed and the National Medical Association of Black Physicians organizes in Atlanta.
T
hings that we may consider to be quackery or quack medicine now-a-days was routinely accepted medical practice and is no longer considered safe or normal treatment. Great gift for any doctor,
nurse or graduate student in the medical field
you know who likes to collect antique medical equipment, manuals or textbooks.
The front and back covers are tightly attached though the paper from the fly leaf shows some separation. Tanning/foxing is apparent. Writing inside the front cover and fly leaf, stain inside the back cover that bled through a few of the back pages. All are shown in pictures, please look at all pictures as they are part of this description. This book is very thick and heavy and will be shipped in a medium flat rate USPS box.