Electricity A Science as a Curative Specific

A New Philosophy of Matter, Showing the Identity of all the Imponderables and the influence which electricity exerts over matter in producing all chemical changes, all motion and rest... With important additions, corrections, and an extensive appendix upon electricity as curative agent [Electricity A Science as a Curative Specific] Hardcover 8vo, 366pp. Not illustrated. Good with nibbling to the cloth at the bottom of the rear joint, sunning and mottling to spine, general rubbing and bumping. Previous owner's note of Thomas E. Naylor, having purchased the book over a century after its publication, remarks "The science fiction like descriptions given throughout... are now fact, and common knowledge at that!" "New and Revised" edition of The New Philosophy of Matter by George Brewster (1843), which is reprinted in full and followed by Stevens' own lengthy treatise--the main attraction here. First edition thus. Stevens claims the book was never circulated: "Although very much needed for u