Physical description
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.
Publication type
non-fiction
Inscriptions & markings
Several notes have been written throughout in black ink in copperplate writing. ' Mr 'Robert Hunter Sept 1888 Wandin Saw Mill' is handwritten on the front left end paper. is written too. There is other illegible writing. On the back left side end paper are many notes written in faded ink. On the right end paper is a list of 11 names, a birth date and year: eg. 'Francis Robert born 31st March 1896' ending with ' Ada Lousia born 19th November (crossed out and replaced with) August 1916'
Summary
This 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.
