Beeton's Medical Dictionary; A Safe Guide for Every Family. Defining, in the Plainest Language, the Symptoms and Treatment of All Ailments, Illnesses & Diseases with Accounts of the Different Parts of the Human Body, and of the Various Substances Used in Medicine, and Full Explanations of Medical and Scientific Terms, &c. by Ward, Lock & Bowden

London: Ward, Lock & Bowden, Limited 1878. (Hardcover) 292pp. Good to very good, no dust jacket. Brown cloth with black lettering and decoration to the cover and spine. Advertisements, tables, notes. The spine is lightly worn with very small punctures, the fore and top edges are a bit soiled, the endpapers are toned, there is a previous owner's name on the first page of the preface. "Of the laws which regulate health, and of the science which comprises a knowledge of Medicine and Surgery, there is a general ignorance very much to be lamented. How many illnesses, and how much suffering, would be averted, if a more sensible acquaintance with sanitary necessities existed in our homes!" - from the Preface. Time Period 19th Century. (Medicine, Dictionaries, Guidebooks, Health, Illness, Medicine, Reference).