THE SILENT FRIEND AND MEDICAL ADVISER: Being A Complete Guide To Health, Happiness, and Wealth
Book Details + Condition: The de Laurence Company (Chicago). ND, but circa 1920s. Very scarce. Hardcover. 335 pages; Illustrated. A "Pow-Wow" style work, listing a variety of ailments (both physical and spiritual), with corresponding cures. Chapter headings include: Diseases in General ~ Debility: Constitutional and Hereditary ~ Debility arising from Overtaxed Energies ~ Debility arising from Objectionable Habits ~ Debility arising from Diseases of Imprudence ~ Debility arising from Old Age ~ Marriage ~ The Consequences of Nervous Debility ~ Treatment. In very good condition, with light wear to boards; firm binding; interior is clean and free of markings save a small note to rear endpaper. Please see below for a description from the author's Preface.
From the Unknown Author's Preface: In a preface, it is usual to explain the object had in view in writing the book. This is unnecessary in the present case, because the purpose of the work is fully unfolded in the various chapters of which it is composed. The author has dealt in the following pages with a class of diseases of fearful prevalence and of alarming fatality, which today seem to be setting at defiance medical skill and scientific knowledge. Every physician of any standing must have noticed the large increase of nervous diseases that has taken place in modern days, and the comparative powerlessness of medical science to deal with them, whilst the public is, alas! but too well acquainted practically with the same fact. The author's vast experience enables him to speak on the question of Nervous Debility with a degree of confidence which can fall to the lot of very few practitioners. The importance of the following pages may be judged of by this fact. This small work comprises one out of many books that the author has written, all having in view the one grand end - the health of the people. A happy country is only to be found where its people are healthy. The physician should, in the author's opinion, become the coadjutor of the clergyman, and work with him to raise the morals of the people. And to do this effectually, the sound mind in a sound body must be aimed at, and all efforts bent to effect its realization.
