Title: THE SILENT FRIEND AND MEDICAL ADVISER: Being A Complete Guide To Health, Happiness,
and Wealth
Author: NA
Publisher: The de Laurence Company
City: ChicagoYear: Circa 1920 (No date provided)Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 335Illustrated: Yes
Book Details + Condition: Scarce circa 1920 edition of THE SILENT FRIEND AND MEDICAL ADVISER: Being A Complete Guide To Health, Happiness, and Wealth. Published by The de Laurence Company; 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: boards and binding are clean and tight; minimal shelfwear; interior is clean and free of markings. 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.
