WHY SO MUCH MEDICINE AND YET SO MANY DISEASES?

1890. Item #85658

RENOVIA MEDICAL COMPANY. WHY SO MUCH MEDICINE AND YET SO MANY DISEASES? Boston: Renovia Medical Company, 1890. 72 pp. 12mo., blue cloth tsamped in gilt. Minor wear to heel and crown, cloth and gilt bright. Dark brown coated endpapers clean. Front flyleaf and next blank page partially detached. "William Thornton" is written in pencil under the title on the title page. Occasional light soil in margins. Advertisement in book format for Renovia, a tonic claimed to cure Scrofula, purify the blood, relieve fever in children, cure kidney and urinary troubles, syphilis (!), consumption, dyspepsia, rheumatism, eczema, psoriasis, and other ailments. Scarce.

Price: $85.00

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