Warren's Household Physician. Enlarged and Revised; for the Use of Physicians, Families, Mariners, and Miners: Being a Brief Description, in Plain Language, of All the Diseases of Men, Women and Children, With the Latest and Most Approved..

Boston, MA: A.I. Bradley and Company, 1896. Fourteenth Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-. No DJ as Issued. Fourteenth Edition. Hardcover. The Household Physician by Ira Warren and A. E. Small, is a comprehensive, late 19th-century home medical guide for families, planters, seamen, and travelers, explaining common diseases and treatments in plain language. It was a popular, subscription-based book that provided practical health advice for its time, blending formal medicine with eclectic and homeopathic remedies, and was updated in later editions with new illustrations and editorial stances against dangerous substances like calomel. Contain full color physiological flat plates. Loose and shaken boards, moderate shelf/edge wear (corners through), toning, moderate fraying at head and heel, tape repair, else tight, bright and unmarred. Full leather. Large 8vo. 1899pp; 982pp. Illus. (b/w plates, frontis). Index. Color flap plates.