Library of health : complete guide to prevention and care of disease, containing practical information on anatomy, physiology and preventive medicine; curative medicine, first aid measures, diagnosis, nursing, sexology, simple home remedies, care of the teeth, occupational diseases, garden plant remedies, alcohol and narcotics, treatment by fifteen schools of medicine, beauty culture, physical culture the science of breathing and the dictionary of drugs.
Library of health : complete guide to prevention and cure of disease, containing practical information on anatomy, physiology and preventive medicine ; curative medicine, first aid measures, diagnosis, nursing, sexology, simple home remedies, care of teeth, occupational diseases, garden plant remedies, alcohol and narcotics, treatment by fifteen schools of medicine, beauty culture, physical culture, the science of breathing and the dictionary of drugs; twenty books - one volume
"McGill University / Montreal / Faculty of Medicine / Prize. / awarded to / M. Edwin H. Funk / for best examination in / Second Year Subjects / T G Roddick / Dean" -printed and written in ink on the sticker inside front cover.
A text book of pharmacognosy; being an account of the more important crude drugs of vegetable and animal origin, designed for students of pharmacy and medicine
"Gibb G. Henderson
777 W W Georgia Street
Vancouver B.C.
Georgia Pharmacy Ltd." [handwritten in black ink on front pastedown]
"GEORGIA PHARMACY LTD.
777 WEST GEORGIA ST.
VANCOUVER, B.C.' [stamped in red ink on top of the front endpaper ]
Author's full given name and dates: Greenish, Henry G. (Henry George), 1855-1933.
"With 297 Illustrations" -- title page
"Professor of Pharmacy to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and in the University of London; Director of the Pharmacy Research Laboratory of the Pharmaceutical Society ; Hanbury Gold Medalist, 1917; Examiner to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and to the University of London." -- title page
Inside front cover:
[printed label]
"McGill University"XXX "Montreal"XXX"Faculty of Medicine"XXX "Prize"XXX "awarded to"
"Mr. Edwin H. Funk" [handwritten in black ink]XXX"for best examination in"XXX"Anatomy of the Second Year" [handwritten in black ink]XXX"G.Moddich?, Dean" [handwritten in black ink]
Dr. Chase's new receipt book, or, Information for everybody : the life-long observations of the author, embracing the choicest, most valuable and entirely new receipts in every department of medicine, mechanics and household economy : in fact a book for everybody, with remarks and explanations which adapt it to the every-day wants of the people, arrarged [sic] in departments, and copiously indexed.
Electricity in medicine; a practical exposition of the methods and use of electricity in the treatment of disease, comprising electrophysics, apparatus, electrophysiology and electropathology, electrodiagnosis and electroprognosis, general electrotherapeutics and special electrotherapeutics.
Author's full name and dates: Martin, Franklin H. (Franklin Henry), 1857-1935.
"Two forewords: William J. Mayo...George W. Crile"--title page
"With special reference to the organization and administration of Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, the Clinical Congress, the American College of Surgeons, the Gorgas Memorial Institute, and the participation of the medical professional writings, and digest of professional activities during fifty years."--t.p.
The household companion : comprising a complete cookbook, practical household recipes, aids and hints for household decorations, the care of domestic plants and animals and a treatise on domestic medicine
The household physician : a twentieth century medica ; a practical description in plain language of all the diseases of men, women and children with the latest discoveries in medicine, and most approved methods of treatment
Photograph of wooden medicine boat grinder inside room of Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co., 1620 Government Street, Victoria. The medicine boat grinder appears to have a circular, flat, wooden wheel or disc, with two spokes attached to each side. It is placed in a wooden boat like structure, where it …
Photograph of wooden medicine boat grinder inside room of Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co., 1620 Government Street, Victoria. The medicine boat grinder appears to have a circular, flat, wooden wheel or disc, with two spokes attached to each side. It is placed in a wooden boat like structure, where it can be used to roll and grind. It is situated on a wooden board floor among stacked wooden boxes and tin can, a wooden stool chair and some woven, natural material. Some of the boxes and tin can around the grinder have labels on them with Chinese characters.