Science / Medicine from SRG Antiquarian Books

Consumption [Tuberculosis]: Its Diagnosis, Treatment, and Cure, Published by the Yonkerman Consumption Remedy Company in 1907. Designed to sell the company's products. Written at a time when death rates due to tuberculosis (consuption were high). Testimonials in back, along with certification of testimonials by Clerk of the County of Kalamazoo, MI. 198 pages. Condition: NOT a library book. Very good condition… Read more about this item

The ABC of Bee Culture: a Cyclopaedia of Everything Pertaining to the Care of Honeybees; Bees, Honey, Hives, Implements, Honey Plants, etc. Facts Gleaned from the Experience of Thousands of Bee Keepers all over our Land. And Afterwards Verified by Practical Work in Our Own Apiary. By A I Root, Revised by E R Root. 85th Thousand. Medina Ohio: The… Read more about this item

The New Natural History by Richard Lydekker, BA, FGS, FZS, and R Bowdler Sharpe, H A MacPherson, F O Pickard-Cambridge, W R Ogilvie Grant, C J Gahan, F A Bather, Edgar A Smith, R I Pocock, M Bernard, H Bernard and R Kirkpatrick. With Introductions by Ernest Seton-Thompson, Naturalist and Artist, Author of "Wild Animals I have Known", etc. and Joel… Read more about this item

The Farmer's Every-day Book; or, Sketches of Social Life in the Country; with the Popular Elements of Practical and Theoretical Agriculture. And Twelve Hundred Laconics and Apothegms Relating to Ethics, Religion, and General Literature; Also Five Hundred Receipts (recipes) on Hygeian, Domestic, and Rural Economy. By the Rev. John L. Blake, D.D. New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan.… Read more about this item

Glances and Glimpses; or Fifty Years Social, Including Twenty Years Professional Life. by. Harriot K Hunt, M.D. 1856 First Edition, Fourth Thousandth. Early women's rights advocate Harriot K Hunt, considered the first female doctor in the United States. After two refusals to have her study at the Harvard Medical School, she received a private medical education and practiced with an emphasis… Read more about this item

My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience as Nurse in the Union Army, and in Relief Work at Home, in Hospitals, Camps, and at the Front, during the War of the Rebellion with Anecdotes, Pathetic Incidents, and Thrilling Reminiscences Portraying The Lights and Shadows of Hospital Life and The Sanitary Service of the War.… Read more about this item

Practical Telephone Hand Book & Guide to Telephonic Exchange, Containing Chapters on the Use of the Telephone, Series and Bridging Phones, Line Construction, Materials to be Used, Locating and Correction of Faults in Instruments and Lines; The Apparatus and Methods Used in Making Tests are Fully and Carefully Treated; And, in Addition, Plain, Easy Instructions on Farm Telephones, which are… Read more about this item

1885 - A Treatise on The Science and Practice of Midwifery. W. S. Playfair, M.D., F.R.C.P., Fourth American Edition from the Fifth English Edition with Notes and Additions by Robert P. Harris, M.D. Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co. 1885. The author presented this classic book on the practice of midwifery, updating it from the British view of the practice. Since American… Read more about this item