Bound book with brown cover and black print, title and author's name on front cover along with non-fictionPopular vintage reference for nurses and students, providing definitions and pronunciaions for medical terms. Also includes several pages of advertisementsnursing - dictionaries, medicine-dictionaries

Illustrated dictionary with red leather binding, title stamped in gilt on front cover and spinenon-fictionA dictionary of nursing and medical terms for nurses. Also contains several pages of contemorary advertisementsnursing-dictionaries, medicine-dictionaries

A thick, brown leather hardcover vintage book, The Practical Home Physician and Encyclopedia of Medicine: A Guide for the Household Management of Disease; The Care of the Sick. Directions for treating Wounds Injuries and Poisons - Illustrated. It has a blind tooled decoration on the front cover and a gilt title and the word, Illustrated, with five gilt raised bands on the highly decorative spine and faded marbled edges to the pages. A coloured illustration of the male anatomy is opposite the title page, covered by tissue paper which has foxed markings. The book is embellished and illustrated by numerous Plates of superb character, coloured after nature and other fine engravings. Some of these engravings are multi layered and open out to show muscles, organs and skeleton.There is a Publisher and Author's, Index to General Division and a Table of Contents. At the back is a Medical Dictionary or Glossary, a Prescription Register and an Index. Pp.1142.non-fictionThis Australasian edition specially revised and adapted to the colonies of Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. The Practical Home Physician and Encyclopedia of Medicine, a late 19th-century medical guide, provided household management advice for the common diseases of men, women, and children. It was widely available in the 1880s, often in an Australasian edition revised for the colonies, by the World Publishing Co. Edited by prominent physicians such as Henry M. Lyman, it was a popular and illustrated resource for home use, containing information on prevention, symptoms, and treatment methods, along with sections on care for the sick. health, human body, biology, medical reference