Woman in Health and Sickness: What She Ought to Know for the Exigencies of Daily Life

Pictorial red cloth 12mo; 193 (3)pp. Stated fourth edition, preface dated 1909. Very Good with slight bumping to the corners and spine ends; mild foxing to the outer leaves only. Many typographic and Illustrated ads (including a full plate ad for Pears' Soap) extending through the pastedowns to the rear cover, claimed by "G. S. Nichol, Costumier and Furrier." Other advertisements range from vanity hair care and creams to specialty intimate items, including Southall's Towels (the first commercially marketed sanitary napkin), hydrostatic douches and hand enemas. Well-known companies like Pears' Soap appear alongside local concerns, like an Edinburgh brewery offering an "Invalid Stout", among other dietary supplements for women and their children. The book was written for the average woman and devotes an uncommon amount of attention to actually dealing with their bodies, especially menstruation--from being able to predict and calculate cycles, to most hygienically managing bleeding (and t