In a time where euphamisms referred vaguely to "unmentionables" and "the curse," some startlingly graphic and illustrated advice. Others are just really old.
More helpful advice can be found in the women & household page.

	Heal Thyself An Explanation of the Real Cause and Cure of Disease by Edward Bach. M.B., B.S., D.P.H. C. W. Daniel Company Limited. Essex. 1970 Paperback. First printed in 1931. Also by the same author of a book about healing with wildflowers advertised inside the front cover. Disease is, apparently, a resut of conflict of the Mind and Soul. No actual medical information included.
	First Aid The Authorised Manual of the St John Ambulance Association, the St Andrew's Ambulance Association, the British Red Cross Society by the St John Ambulance Association of the Order of St John The Swindon Press. Great Britain. 1961 First edition, first printed 1958. Soft cover. List of illustrations. Lots of actual emergency first aid proceedure explained. Syllabus of instruction included.
	Comyns Berkley's Pictorial Midwifery An Atlas of Midwifery For Pupil Midwives revised by D.M. Stern, M.A., M.B., Ch.B (Cantab), F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G. Balliere, Tindall and Cassell, London. 1968 Baillieres Handbooks for Nurses. 5th edition Hardcover. Dustjacket depicts twins in a pelvis. First edition in 1926. Many, many horrifyingly graphic B&W line drawings of birthing. Some include problem births (breech birth of twins) and complications like Varicose Veins of the Vulva, Oedema of the Vulva. etc.
	Furneaux's Human Physiology Nurse's Editon with 199 illustrations by William. A. M. Smart, M.B., B.S. Lond., B.Sc. Lond., M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., F.Z.S., lecturer in Applied Pharmacology & Toxicology Longman's, Green and Co. Great Btitain. 1940 Fourth edition, enlarged and revised. Hardcover. Great line drawings. Very detailled chapters on each aspect of anatomy including chapters on "Histology" and "Sexual Reproduction."
	Rheumatism - It's Meaning and It's Menace by lewellys F. Barker and Norman B. Cole D. Appleton and Company. New York. 1926 Hardcover. Preface starts with "Menace?" you ask. Contents include Rheumatism and "Rheumatism", Chronic Arthritis, Gout, and Social Significances of the Rheumatic Diseases. Glossary and ads at back for further reading.
	Domestic and Personal Hygiene or the Gospel of Cleanliness by John C. Threash (long list of achievements) St John's Gate, London. 2nd edition. n.d. Officially known as "The Grand Priory of The Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in England". Small hardcover with embossed front. Written as 6 lectures of 2 hour duration or 12 one hour lectures. Full range of medical advice on every subject from appropriate clothes, the house, parasites & diseases, food and water.
	Local Anaesthesia Simplified by John Jacob Posner, D.D.S. The C.V. Mosby Co. St Louis. 1925 Hardcover by the Chief of Dental Department Harlem Dispensary, Former Instructor in Oral Surgery, New York Homeopathic Medicinal College & Flower Hospital, Visiting Dental Surgeon St Luke's Hospital, New York. With 55 illustrations of horrific dental proceedures and very large needles. One shows infraobital injection (just below eye socket). Not for the squeaminsh.
	Modern Home Medical Advisor Your Health and How To Preserve It edited by Morris Fishbein, M.D. Doubleday & Company Inc. Garden Cuty, New York. 1942 Thick, hardcover with gold embossed spine and medical symbol stamped into front cover. With many linecut & halftone illustrations. Contents & list of illustrations at front. From "The Choice of a Physician","The Family Medicine Chest", "First Aid" including section or Fireworks and Toy Firearms. And much, much more.
	The Health Acts Queensland. 1937 to 1946 with an Index Compiled to 31st July, 1947 Prepared by Hon. A. Jones, M.L.A., Minister for Health & Home Affairs A.H. Tucker, Brisbane. 1947 Paperback. Deals with everything from drinking water, to places for a woman's confinement or lying in, selling drugs, cleanliness of camping grounds to dealing with a still-born infant.
	Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy revised and edited by Arthur Robinson Oxford University Press. Edinburgh 1927 Hardcover with gold embossed spine. Originally printed 1896. 8th edition- Superior Extremety, Inferior Extremity. "with 210 illustrations, many of which are coloured". A few pictures of X-Rays of various body parts. Glossary at front. Excellent reference book. Includes both "B.N.A. Terminology" and "Old Terminology."
	Materica Medica and Therapies An Introduction to the Rational Treatment of Disease by J. Mitchell Bruce and Walter J. Dilling Cassell and Company. London. 1917 Hardcover, first printed in 1884. Includes Administration of Drugs; Names, Nature and Sources of Drugs; Vegetable and Animal Materia Medica And Synthetic Preparations; Drugs Acting on the Uterus; Vegetable Astringents; General Theraputics and much, much more.
	Recent Advances in Pathology by Various authors, edited by Geoffrey Hadfield, M.D., F.R.C.P. J & A Churchill Ltd. London. 1953 Navy-blue hardcover with 86 illustrations. In the series of "Recent Advances" which include Clinical Pathology and Bacteriology. First printed 1932. Pictured predominently show clusters of cells and things happening to them, many of rabbits and of the human heart.
	Aids To Practical Nursing A Complete Textbook For The Nurse by Marjorie Houghton, M.B.E., S.R.N., S.C.M., D.N. (London) Bailliere, Tindall & Cox. London. 1952 7th edition. Small hardcover with foreward by Professor M. L. Rosenheim. Includes Domestic Ward word, Recipes, Observing Stools, Preperation for Surgery, Methods of Treatment (including Allen's Hot Air Apparatus). Some B&W drawings.
	Saint John's Ambulance Brigade Sheffield Corp Souvenir Handbook 1899-1949 by the Grand Priory in the British Realm of the Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John in Jerusalem. 1949 Soft cover. Pages of advertisements throughout. Articles and photos of happenings over the last 50 years of service. Includes "The White Cross", the prayer of the Order of St John and the history of the Order of St. John's. No first aid advice given. Photo of the "Rolls Royce Ambulance ecterior and interior (with fringed tartan rug)."
	A Synopsis of Surgical Anatomy by Alexander Lee McGregor, M.Ch (Edin), F.R.C.S. (Eng) John Wright & Sons, Bristol. 1943 Hard cover. 5th edition with 696 B&W illustrations. Two parts- "Anatomy of the Normal" and "Anatomy of the Abnormal." Chapters of the Synposis of Certain Diseases.
	The Universal Home Doctor Illustrated Odhams Press Ltd. London. n.d. Companion to the Odhams Universal Home Lawyer. Colour plate of man in a posing pouch inside front cover. All other pictures in B&W. Medical Dictionary and Enclyopaedia from A to Z. Special Suppliments- First Aid, Care & Management of Baby, Child Welfare Movement, Beauty Culture, Diet & invalid Cooking, Althletic & Remedial Exercises.
	A History of Drugs by Lydia Mez-Mangold F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co. Ltd. Basle, Switzerland. 1971
	A History of Medicine: Volume II Early Greek, Hindu, and Persian Medicine by Henry E. Sigerist A History of Medicine Series Oxford University Press Inc September 24, 1987
	BANCKES HERBAL A Boke of the propreties of herbes called an herbal. Rycharde Banckes. London. 1552 Manchester Digital Collections.
	Culpeper's Complete Herbal & English Physician by Culpeper Chrysalis Books Greenwich Editions, 2003
	Galen. Writings on Health: Thrasybulus and Health (De sanitate tuenda) P. N. Singer. Cambridge University Press. 2023.
	Gilbertus Anglicus: Medicine of the Thirteenth Century. Henry E. Handerson Alpha Editions 25th January 2022. Whilst not his actual translation of the text, the notes on some of the areas which were on interested him.
	Here Begins The Seeing Of The Urines an original 13th-15th Century Urine Diagnosis Pamphlet Theophrastus von oberstockstall The Restoreres of Alchemical Manuscripts Society. 2014. A great pamphlet with some illustrations.
	Hildegard von Bingen's Physica The Complete English Translation of Her Classic Work on Health and Healing Translated from the Latin by Priscilla Throop. Healing Arts Press. Rochester. 1998.
	Holistic Healing by Hildegard of Bingen Liturgical Press 12 September, 1994
	The Medieval Woman's Guide to Health The first english gynecological handbook. Middle English Text with introduction and Modern English Translation by Beryl Rowland Kent State University Press Kent, Ohio 1981
	On the Properties of Things: John Trevisa's Translation of De Proprietatibus Rerum. Translation by Madeleine Jeay and Kathleen Garay. Oxford. Clarendon, 1975.
	The Medieval Health Handbook Tacuinum Sanitatis Translated and adapted by Oscar Ratti and Adele Westbrook from the original Italian edition by Luisa Cogliati Arano George Braziller NY 1976
	The Four Seasons of the House of Cerruti Translated by Judith Spencer Complete Revised Translation, Facts On File Publications New York, England, 1983
	The Trotula An English Translation of the Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine The Middle Ages Series, edited by Monica H. Green University of Pennsylvania Press. 2002
	Women's Secrets A Translation of Pseudo-Albertus Magnus' De Secretis Mulierum with Commentaries by Helen Rodnite Lemay , SUNY series in Medieval Studies State University of New York Press. October 14, 1992

 

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