INVENTORY #156535
Woman's Guide to Health, Beauty and Happiness: What Every Woman Should Know
PITCAIRN, Frederick Wilson; WILLIARD, Elizabeth J.
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Inside title continues: "Containing full information on all matters pertaining to the gentler sex; love, courtship and marriage; nature and mysteries of reproduction, etc., etc. A popular treatise for Maidens, Wives and Mothers, Directions for the cure of diseases peculiar to women; physical culture; treatment of the complexion and hair; how to cultivate beauty, etc. The whole forming a Complete Medical Guide for Women." Chapters on happy and unhappy marriages, the perfect female form, menstruation, American girls, healthy and robust children, physical training of children, female clothing, home gymnastics, hairstyles, etc.
Publication Info
- Publisher: n/a
- Edition: n/a
- Date Published: nd. ca. 1900s
- Place Published: n/a
- ISBN: n/a
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- Condition: Fair
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: No
- Jacket Condition: n/a
- Details:
512 p. 25 cm. At front is a fold-out colour chart showing internal organs. One piece, containing an unborn child, has become detached but is preserved in a small clear bag between these pages. 2 colour illustrations, 16 b&w photos, some line drawings as diagrams or decorations. Grey cloth with pasted-on illustration and colour print. Worn extremities. Front hinge is repaired internally with white tape. Rear hinge is cracking internally. Some soiling to the pages surrounding the colour chart. Some light stains to pages. No publisher or city. Publication date on title verso is worn off.