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Culpeper's Complete Herbal and English Physician
Harvey Sales 1981 Facsimile Edition Hard Cover Good+ Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
iv, 240 pp. Occasional colour plates. Facsimile edition of the 1826 original. Previous owner's name in ink to front flyleaf. Dustjacket, now protected in archival mylar, is not clipped. Page edges lightly yellowed. Boards with some light edgewear. Dustjacket sunned at spine, with some light edgewear.
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15.00 AUD
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British Homoeopathic Society British Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia. Third Edition
London E. Gould & Son 1882 Third Hard Cover Good No Jacket Octavo
xix, 456 pp. General and edgewear to brown stamped boards. Corners and extremities of backstrip are worn through, with a little loss to lower edge of backstrip. Gilt lettering to spine and gilt seal ("Similia Similibus") to front cover are bright, but a little rubbed. Considerable foxing to edges of text block; occasional foxing internally; otherwise unmarked. Corner creases to less than 20 pages. In two or three places string is showing between signatures, but binding and hinges are quite solid.
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145.00 AUD
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Chaitow, Leon Stone Age Diet: The Natural Way to Eat
London Macdonald Optima 1987 0356123286 / 9780356123288 Paperback Good Octavo
160 pp. Light general and edgewear to illustrated covers; crease to lower back corner. Shallow reading creases to spine, but binding is solid. Yellowing to edges of text block and outer page margins. Internally unmarked. Illustrated with b/w cartoons. "Examines the paleolithic diet and discovers some startling parallels with modern nutritional advice: plenty of raw fruit and vegetables, some meat and fish, but little or no cereals or dairy products." Includes recipes.
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Coffin, A. I. Botanic Guide to Health, and the Natural Pathology of Disease
Manchester The British Medico-Botanic Press 1850 Nineteenth Edition Hard Cover Good No Jacket 12 mo
375 pp. General and edgewear to treated cloth boards; corners worn through. Foxing and discolouration to edges of text block. Occasional foxing and stains to otherwise unmarked pages. A few small tears. Binding is solid. General index; index of remedial agents (plants by common names, and medical compounds), index by various forms of diseases.
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Compton-Burnett, J. Curability of Tumours by Medicines
Calcutta M. Bhattacharyya & Co 1967 Reprint Hard Cover Good No Jacket 12 mo
384 pp. Maroon cloth boards a little sunned along the spine, but clean and bright. Internally unmarked, solidly bound. A few pages roughly cut at the fore-edge; small tears to the rear endpapers.
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Hall, Dorothy Iridology: Personality and Health Analysis Through the Iris
Melbourne Nelson 1980 0170055582 / 9780170055581 Reprint Paperback Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
241 pp. Light general and edgewear to illustrated wraps. Deep crease across front cover. Edges of text block a little grubby. A few splotches to inside front cover. Lower (blank) half of half-title page is torn away; otherwise, interior clean and bright. Colour and black-and-white photos, diagrams, Iris Map frontis.
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Hern, John Advanced Hygiene; or, How to Cure Disease without Recourse to Drugs or Medicines of Any Kind
Melbourne Mason, Firthy & MCutcheon Hard Cover Good No Jacket Octavo
328 pp. Red cloth boards with decorative blindstamping are worn and stained, with a prominent round cup stain to front cover. Gilt lettering to backstrip partially rubbed away. Gutter separated where half-title has been removed. Last page has two-inch tear along gutter, and a small chunk torn from the fore margin. Colour from boards has bled onto lower edge of front and rear eps. Light pencilled underlining to only two pages; otherwise unmarked. One b/w illustration (alimentary canal). Recipes (flour and milk, gum water, treacle whey, other yummies).
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40.00 AUD
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Miles, Eustace Prevention and Cure
Methuen 1911 First Hard Cover Good No Jacket 12 mo
247 pp + 31-pg catalogue of books published by Methuen. Considerable general and edgewear to blue cloth boards. Foxing to edges of text block and throughout, confined mostly to margins. Two or three occurrences of pencilled marginalia. A few pages beginning to split at the gutter, but overall binding is sound. The book contains chapters on the prevention and cure of conditions including (but not limited to) self-slavery, old age, colds, obesity (and thinness), inattention and bad memory, monotony, crankiness, failure, hurry, disease and dis-ease in general.
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Morse, Frederick M., M.D. Galvanism and Sine Current Technique
Boston The Tudor Press 1930 First Hard Cover Good No Jacket
254 pp. General and edgewear to cloth boards. Fraying at corners and ends of spine. Foxing to endpapers and edges of text block. A couple of instances of inked underlining. 101 illustrations -- photographs of procedures and implements; anatomical diagrams.
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Reid, Janice (editor) Body, Land, and Spirit: Health and Healing in Aboriginal Society
St Lucia University of Queensland Press 1989 0702217794 / 9780702217791 Reprint Paperback Good Octavo Banduk Marika (cover)
241 pp. Light general and edgewear to illustrated covers. Faint stains to edges of text block. Yellowing to edges of text block and outer page margins. Internally unmarked; solidly bound. "To many Australian Aborigines health is not simply a matter of good fortune, a good diet or a prudent lifestyle. It is the outcome of a complex relationship between body, land and spirit. This fascinating and important book on traditionally-oriented Aborigines draws on the original reseaarch of 13 anthropologists, health professionals and scientists. Their studies reveal a sophistication and diversity in Aboriginal medical theories, practices and health that has largely been unrecognized in the delivery of Western health care to Aborigines."
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Reilly, Pauline Cannabis and Cancer: Arthur's Story
Carlton North Scribe Publications 2001 090801161X / 9780908011612 First Paperback Very Good Octavo
118 pp. Some faint scuffing to covers. Small crease to upper front corner. Faint yellowing to edges of text block and page margins. Internally clean, bright, solidly bound. "Combining a wealth of research with a moving personal story, Cannabis and Cancer will make all readers -- from parents to politicians -- think again."
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Shaberman, Raphael Bernard Autistic Children: The Nature and Treatment of Childhood Autism
London Stuart & Watkins 1971 0722401191 / 9780722401194 First Hard Cover Good Good Octavo
94 pp. Light general and edgewear to price-clipped dustwrapper; lower panel of dw is scuffed. Corners of brown boards a little bumped. Upper edge of text block faintly foxed. Internally unmarked and solidly bound. "The chapter on causation presents a view which will be novel to many readers ... [but] is very much in line with the most profound and ancient teachings known to man, which are the key to harmonious evolution."
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