Diseases of Modern Life
by Richardson, Benjamin Ward
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Van Nuys, California, United States
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About This Item
Bermingham & Co., New York, 1882; First American Edition; sm 8vo (7 1/2"), 288 pages; green cloth; embossed boards; gilt titles and decorations. A study of the health effects of a number of social and environmental conditions encountered by the working classes: occupational hazards, physical strain, worry, alcohol and tobacco, poor food and air, hypochondriasis, etc. Authored by eminent 19th century English physician and medical historian Benjamin Ward Richardson (1828-1896). Fine. Clean, crisp, bright, sharp, gilding brilliant, no ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind.
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Details
- Bookseller
- AARDWOLF Fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1083
- Title
- Diseases of Modern Life
- Author
- Richardson, Benjamin Ward
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bermingham & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York,
- Date Published
- 1882
- Keywords
- Medicine, Sociology, Environment, Epidemiology, Occupational Health And Safety
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science and Medicine;
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