1889-1905 A System of Hygienic Medicine, or The only Rational Way of Treating Disease;

Description

Original Binding, Scarce

This scarce volume consists of eleven treatises on medicine, health and nutrition by English physician and dietetic reformer Thomas Richard Allinson. 

In the original half morocco with cloth boards. 

Among other advocacies, Allinson is perhaps best known as a proponent of the nutritional benefits of wholemeal bread, with his original recipe still used today. This particular topic is discussed in more detail in the final essay of this volume. 

Comprising the following titles: 

A System of Hygienic Medicine, or The only Rational Way of Treating Disease (1904) - Eighth edition. With a portrait frontispiece. 

Medical Essays Volume I (1905) - New and revised edition Thirty-second Thousand), Volume II (1899, Twelfth edition), Volume III (1903, Revised edition), Volume IV (1904, Reprinted from the Weekly Times & Echo), Volume V (1903, Reprinted from the Weekly Times & Echo)

Includes essays on management of infancy, health, longevity, the teeth, bodily changes, natural conditions, healing power of nature etc.

Stomach Diseases (1902)  

Lungs Complaints (1895) - No title page. Dated from a copy held at the British Library. 

Articles on Rheumatism and Rheumatic Affections (1892)  - No title page. Dated from a copy held at the British Library. 

The Advantages of Wholemeal Bread (1889) - Undated, dated from a copy held at the British Library. 

Wholesome Cookery (1890) - No title page. Dated from a copy held at the British Library. Missing last two leaves.