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(1) "Every Man's Doctor: or Family Guide to Health Containing a Condensed Description of the Various Causes and Symptoms of Diseases with an Appendix Showing the Medical Properties of the Most Valuable Roots and Herbs To Which is Added 150 Recipes" New York: J.K. Wellman, 1845. 72 pp; (2) "Hand-book for the Military Surgeon: Being a Compendium of the Duties of the Medical Officer in the Field, the Sanitary Management of the Camp, the Preparation of Food, Etc.; with Forms for the Requisitions for Supplies, Returns, Etc.; the Diagnosis and Treatment of Camp Dysentery; and All the Important Points in War Surgery: Including Gunshot Wounds, Amputation, Wounds of the Chest, Abdomen, Arteries and Head, and the Use of Chloroform" 3rd Ed. by Chas. S. Tripler and George C. Blackman. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., Publishers, 1862. 121 pp. plus 42 pp. appendix and 6 pp. of advertisements. Size of largest ("Wood's"): 6.75" L x 2.25" W x 9.4" H (17.1 cm x 5.7 cm x 23.9 cm)

(3) "The Renewal of Life. Lectures, Chiefly Clinical" 2nd American Edition from the 4th London Edition by Thomas King Chambers. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1866. 646 pp; (4) "An Analytical Compendium of the Various Branches of Medical Science for the Use and Examination of Students" by John Neill and Francis Gurney Smith. Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1866. 974 pp. with 374 illustrations; (5) "Teacher of the Ways of Medicine: A Copy of the Book 'Enchridion [sic] Medicum,' or a handbook, the guide and educator and trainer for beginners in the wisdom of medicine, and it is the precious capital, which he bought through daily experience, constant for fifty years, and the honorable legacy which he donated for the benefit of the human race" by Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland. Translated into Russian by Gregory Schokolski and into Hebrew by Jacob ben Eliezer Fahnberg. 1869. 167 pp. plus index; (6) "Wood's Medical and Surgical Monographs: Consisting of the Original Treatises and of Complete Reproductions, in English, of Books and Monographs selected from the latest literature of foreign countries, with all illustrations, etc." Volume IV. New York: William Wood and Company, 1889. 877 pp. plus index; (7) "Applied Physiology Including The Effects of Alcohol and Narcotics" 3rd Edition by Frank Overton. New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago: American Book Company, 1910. 464 pp; (8) "The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English; or, Medicine Simplified" by R. V. Pierce. 97th Edition. Revised by V.M. Pierce and Lee H. Smith. Buffalo, NY: World's Dispensary Medical Association, 1918. 1008 pp.

Provenance: private Goldstein collection, Denver, Colorado, USA. The Goldstein's have amassed their collection over the past six decades.

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  • Condition: "Every Man's" is missing cover; all others have wear to covers with bending to corners, fraying, tattering, staining, and weathering. A few have loosening to binding. All have pages with yellowing, foxing, tears, stains, chips, creases, folds, and fraying. Text and images of all are clear and legible.

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