PAULIZKI H. F. - Medicine for the rural people. Vol. 1. Vilna 1849

PAULIZKI Henry Felix - Medicine for the rural people, containing recipes for the reasonable care of health, avoidance and treatment of ordinary diseases with a small number of certain medical remedies, and especially with decent behavior, serving parsons, feldsher and reasonable farmers, peculiarly in areas that do not have doctors. Newly rewritten and multiplied by Frederick Charles Paulizki [...] From the second newly rewritten original edition translated from the German by Valentine Szacfaier. Edition IV, with corrections and treatise "On Asiatic Cholera" multiplied by the author. Vol. 1. Vilna 1849. by J. Zawadzki. 8, pp. LVI, 324. psk. period binding.
Distinct rubbing of the covers, slight loss of leather on the spine, inside yellowing of the paper in places, block slightly loose, last pages loose. Ex-libris. A comprehensive nineteenth-century medical manual intended for independent use, without the assistance of a physician. Includes chapters on causes of disease, prevention, diet, treatment of specific diseases. Infrequent.