Thirty-Eight Lectures on How to Acquire and Preserve Health, Gleason & Burner MD For Sale

Title: Thirty-Eight Lectures on How to Acquire and Preserve Health

Authors: C. W. Gleason, M.D., and H. H. Bruner, M.D.

Publisher: H. N. McKinney & Co.

Copyright: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, by H. N. McKinney & Co., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C.

Binding/Format: Green cloth hardcover with gilt title and ornament to front board and spine; blind-stamped title to rear board; brown endpapers

Illustrations: Illustrated with over one hundred and fifty finely executed wood engravings of the organs of the human body in health and disease (numerous in-text figures throughout)

Content Highlights (from visible contents pages): Circulation of the Blood; The Brain and Nerves; The Spinal Cord and Nerves; Anatomy of the Ear; The Skin and its Diseases; The Organs of Digestion; The Urinary Organs; The Organs of Locomotion; The Voice; How to Breathe; How to Strengthen Weak Lungs; How to Acquire Strength; Constitution of Woman; Diseases of Women; Functional Diseases of the Womb, and more

Notable Features: Period woodcut medical illustrations; 19th-century health and anatomy lectures presented in 38 lectures

Notes/Markings: Small penciled notation visible at top of title page; no dust jacket (as issued)

Special Note: Antique medical/health reference published in the United States; classic green cloth presentation with gilt and blind-stamped titles