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ANON.
A Brief Treatise on Various Ailments and Their Treatment by Nature's Remedies.

Description:
pp. 47, (i). Portrait of Gladstone in text. Original diagonal grain cloth lettered in gilt - Valuable Herbal Prescriptions, title and last page browned by reaction with the coated end-papers, one bifolium loose because of the rusting of the staples used to bind the text, overall though, a good copy.

*SCARCE - COPAC records copies at the British Library - Wellcome - National Library Wales. It is effectually an advertisement for the unknown author's GERME SYRUP ['not unpleasant to the taste', 2/9 per bottle with 3d. for the postage, '...and serves an adult 7 days]. On Physical Culture, our author notes - 'I am continually receiving letters asking questions on the subject of physical culture as a curative agent... Weight lifting is not an advisable pastime......'.

[The Medical Institute. Bradford].

Date Published: [c.1895].

Stock No. 57078

Price: £60.00

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