HUGE ✅ ANTIQUE DOCTOR BOOK_MEDICAL_HERBAL PLANTS_HOMEOPATHY_APOTHECARY_SKELETON_

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Title
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Gunn's New Family Physician
: or, Home Book of Health; Forming a Complete Household Guide. Giving Many Valuable Suggestions for Avoiding Disease and Prolonging Life, with Plain Directions in Cases of Emergency, and Pointing Out in Familiar Language the Causes, Symptoms, Treatment and Cure of Diseases Incident to Men, Women and Children, with the Simplest and Best Remedies; Presenting a Manual for Nursing the Sick, and Describing Minutely the Properties and Uses of Hundreds of Well-Known
Medicinal Plants.
With Supplementary Treatises on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene, on Domestic and Sanitary Economy, and on Physical Culture and Development.
author
:
John Gunn
published
:
Wilstach, Baldwin, & Co
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1882
size:
apx  9.75" by 6.75" and is 3.25" Thick with
1,230 pages
binding:
full embossed leather with gilt decorations
with 15 pages of plants tinted in green and apx 38 illustrations
[the skeleton and body both have pictures of the front /backs]
4 are steel engravings - Dr. Gunn, affection, the wife, and a young Queen
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Contents:
1,218
pages of information on how to avoid disease and prolong life, the simplest and best remedies for illnesses, the properties and uses of
MEDICINAL PLANTS & HERBS,
the symptoms, treatment and cure of diseases, how to nurse the sick, physical culture and development,
with supplementary treatises on anatomy, physiology, and hygiene.
Dr. Gunn's main intent was to provide an invaluable collection of
PRACTICAL RECIPES
and numerous preparations and
CURES
that  is written in simple language, free from medical terms, the diagnosis and treatments of illnesses and diseases in men, women and children, and even a
"cure" for cancer.
An enlarged and rewritten version of the domestic medical guide which 'first appeared at Knoxville in 1830. It became the most successful non-sectarian domestic medical book of its era - gradually supplanting Buchan's Domestic Medicine in American homes.' This volume was also
used by John Steinbeck as a reference
while he wrote his famous novel East of Eden. 'Steinbeck depended on Gunn for specific contemporary medical information which added verisimilitude to his rendering of 19th Century life...', 'provided model for honorable aspects of human behavior', and gave details 'on pregnancy and midwifery, especially for medical lore and common sense knowledge.' (Robert DeMott, American Studies 22).
- PLEASE consult your DR before trying any of the "remedies" in this book
If you need more pictures of the book-
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Condition:
Please
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photos carefully
as they are part of the description. I am human and sometimes miss a thing or 2, but I
try to mention the book's main faults
. all of my books are VERY OLD and have 100+ years of wear to varying degrees
very good minus condition.... for its age:
It is extremely rare to find a book of this size in decent shape!
boards -
very secure, repairs have been done
textblock
- pages very secure / book is cracked half way through - see last picture
outer joints
- - good / both show splitting [3/4 of the back joint & 1/3 front joint] & been have been
nicely repaired
= are holding the covers very nicely
spine ends
- bottom one is pretty good, bit dry - top 1 repaired /replaced
tips
- worn through & touched up
inner hinges
-  very good - newer ribbons
pages
- generally very clean- just a few handling marks & spots
writing
- name & writing on ffep
rips /folds
- 1 rip on the green flower page - look just to the right of the orange paper - it has been taped; any other rips have to be very small - apx 12  folds [4 of these dog ears]
other:
- gilt is still quite bright / it does have a very, very, faint smell - there's hope - read about smells below
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and remember -
this book is very old and
may have accumulated bad smells along the way [musty basement/ mildew/ smoke]
- I have found that
dryer sheets in them for a few months makes a world of difference!
some of my books get sold right away so
please consider using this trick before deciding to return it!
My nose doesn't work like it use to
so the old book smell doesn't bother me.
As far as I can tell - it
does have a very, very, faint smell - I will put extra dryer sheets in it; if, when you get it, it still smells off to you, just keep replacing the dryer sheets until it smells like lilacs!
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