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(Hot Springs, Ark.: A. J. Whitworth, M. D.; Press of S. C. Toof & Co., Memphis, 1913). First edition.. Some minor rubbing and wear; some light spotting; a very good copy.. 8vo, original black-stamped red cloth, 189 pages. Two inserted portraits. A collection of receipts for various maladies, including venereal complaints, compiled by two Hot Springs doctors. Whitworth is perhaps best remembered for his published fulminations against the osteopath bathrobe evil. Atwater 3773.1.
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The Hot Springs Specialist . . . Giving, in Plain English, the Treatment and Prescription in Full, Used for Many Years by These Two Physicians and Surgeons: The Knowledge Gained by Experience in their Life-Time Study and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Diseases. Price $5.00.
by Whitworth, A[lbert] J[ames] and J[ohn] M. Byrd.
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Medical Reports on the Effects of Water, Cold and Warm, as a Remedy in Fever and Other Diseases, Whether Applied to the Surface of the Body, or used Internally . . . from the Fourth London Edition, Corrected and Enlarged.
by Currie, James, M. D.
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Philadelphia: Printed for James Humphreys, and for Benjamin and Thomas Kite, 1808. First American edition.. Front joint cracked but holding; rubbed; some foxing; a good, sound copy.. 8vo (8.5 x 5.13 inches), two volumes in one (as published, pagination continuous), original sheep, black morocco spine label, gilt lettering, 430 pages. Five gallons of salt water, of the temperature of 44 deg. were poured over her naked body, at five o'clock in the afternoon, and after being hastily dried with towels, she was replaced in bed: when the agitation and the sobbing had subsided, her pulse was found to beat at the rate of 96 strokes in the minute, and in half an house afterwards it had fallen to 80. The heat was reduced to 98 deg. by the affusion, and half an hour afterwards it remained stationary. The sense of heat and head-ache were gone, and the thirst nearly gone." Austin 596; Norman, History of Medicine, 1988 (for the 1797 Liverpool edition): "Currie was among the first in Britain to use cold water…
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