New Guide to Health

$45.00

Swartout, Hubert O. [Oscar]

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Swartout, Hubert O. [Oscar]. New Guide to Health. Oshawa, Ontario, Canada: Signs of the Times Publishing, 1944. [Canadian Edition]. pp. 224. Royal 8vo. Textured green buckram over boards with gilt lettering, and illustration to the front board. Replete with many black-and-white photographs, detailed anatomical illustrations, facsmiles, one large colour fold-out illustration depicting the gastro-intestinal tract affixed to the front matter. Replete with suggestions for maintaining good health with sections on nearly every aspect of the human. Sections include: How the Body Moves, How the Body is Nourished, The Control Mechanism of the Body, How the Body Reproduces Itself, Diseases of Women, The Home Medicine Chest, Accidents, Emergencies, and Common Ailments, Nervous and Mental Diseases, Contagious Diseases, and many more. This early edition published in Ontario is unrecorded in commerce. Not present amongst the holdings at Library and Archives Cananda, McGill University Osler Library of Medicine, et a. Lightest rubbing to the extremities, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good+. Hardcover. (#1873) $45.00