Author: HAYES, PLYM. S.
Title: ELECTRICITY AND THE METHOD OF ITS EMPLOYMENT IN THE REMOVAL OF SUPERFLUOUS HAIR AND OTHER FACIAL BLEMISHES
Description: Chicago, W. T. Keener, 1889. 1889. Hardcover . Hardback, 16mo, appx 5 x 6 7/8 inches, gilt and black on dark olive green cloth, vi + 128 + [3] pp, VG+/no dj. Very light wear at corners and spine-ends. Back cover has a ghosted ring-stain and small amount of bubbling of the cloth. Sound binding with hinges intact (dark grey endpapers). Two surnames in pencil to FFEP, otherwise interior clean and crisp. Illustrations. Chapter on apparatus. Two-page chapter on Don'ts. Index. Three pages of ads. 1900 article laid-in on electrolysis in treatment of urethritis (George Walker, Johns Hopkins, from National Medical Review, reprinted form Maryland Medical Journal). Very Good.

Keywords: Medicine Electricity Electrotherapeutics Galvanism Franklinism Faradism 19th Century