Vintage FIVE book, illustrated manual of domestic medicine in decorative binding:

Virtue's Household Physician

New and Enlarged Edition. 

Published by Virtue and Company Limited in 1926.

Complete five volume set.

Contents: General Introductory Remarks; Hygiene; Temperaments and Constituents of the Body and Symptoms of Diseases; Skin Diseases; Diseases of Brain and Nerves; Diseases of the Throat; Diseases of the Chest; Diseases of the Heart; Diseases of the Abdominal Cavity; Venereal and Sexual Diseases; Female Diseases; Care of Children and Diseases; Diseases of the General System - Miscellaneous Diseases; Old Age and its Diseases; Surgical Diseases; Homeopathic Treatment of Disease; Osteopathy; Processes of Hydropathic Treatment; Domestic Management of the Sick Room; Art and Science of Cooking for the Sickroom; How to Prepare Wines and Tonics; Medicines; Proprietary and Patent Medicines; What to Do in Case of Accidents; Women Beautiful; Physical Culture; Phrenology; Veterinary Medicine.

Illustrated with black and white diagrams and photographs and a few colour pictures.

Hardbacks. 1444 pages in total, 19.5 cm by 26.5 cm (complete set spans just over 17cm on the bookcase).

Good condition

 Minor wear and marks to the cover. Binding intact. End papers browned. Very occasional marks to inside pages but most look clean. Slight chemical odour on turning the pages

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