Author: [Medicine]. [Ziemssen].
Title: Von Ziemssen's Handbook of General Therapeutics.
Description: London, Smith Elder 1885-87. Seven volumes octavo half gilt morocco (some wear but solid). Ex parliamentary library with their gilt crest on the front board and incorporated into the spine, no other markings. Scattered spotting or browning but a rather good set. ¶ "The first work of the kind published in any language. Each part, written by a German authority .. forms a treatise complete in itself" (preface). Bauer on the Dietary of the Sick; Stange on the Koumiss Cure; Liebermeister on Antipyretic Methods; Jurgensen on Antiphlogistic Methods; Eulenburg on Epidermic, Endermic and Hypodermic Administration of Medicines; Oertel on Respiratory Therapeutics; Weber on the Treatment of Disease by Climate; Leichtenstern on General Balneotherapeutics; Busch on General Orthopaedics, Gymnastics and Massage; Winternitz on Hydrotherapeutics; Erb on Electrotherapeutics; Oertel on Therapeutics of Circulatory Derangements.

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