Das neue Naturheilverfahren. Lehr- und Nachschlagebuch. Naturgemäen Heilweise und Gesundheitspflege. Neueste Auflage.: Mit vielen hundert in den Text gedruckten Abbildungen, vielen Chromotafeln, einer Kunstdrucktafel 40 hervorragender Vertreter der Naturheilkunde...

Leipzig. Verlag von F. E. Bilz [February 1900] 'Jubiläums Ausgabe'. Hard Cover. "...sowie dem Porträt des Verfassers und mehreren bunten zerlegbaren Modellen über den Bau des menschlichen Körpers und seiner Organe. Part of the Social Utopia movement. To quote the translated website: 'With the bath season 2000 the Bilzbad Radebeul stood 95 years in the service of the recovery-looking-for. Friedrich Eduard Bilz opened the "public light air bath" on 25 June 1905.' This liberally illustrated monument to hygiene discusses compresses, baths & showers, massage, first aid, exercise, healing herbs, ventilation, stoves & ovens for heat, melancholy, migraine, mushrooms, phrenology, orthopedics... The 16 pages at end are a pink advertising flyer for various baths. 2 leaves, 1943, 16 pages, 723 text figures (incl. photos), 14 color plates, index; double color folding plate, folding group portrait plate & halftone portrait plate (Bilz) precede title-page. Mounted inside both covers are many-layer color folding anatomical overlays showing the human body (front cover, female and male) and the head (rear). Bound in brown boards stamped in black & gold, portrait of Bilz & his Baths on front cover; 24 cm.; backstrip carefully re-anchored with archival glue, edges & covers not too badly worn; pages darkened, edges brittle; a folding plate at p. 1536 lacks all after the fold; withal good+. Stock#29518.