The Handy Home Medical Advisor and Concise Medical Encyclopedia

Hanover House, Garden City, NY. 1957. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light bumping to head and tail; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped ($2.95); light toning to spine and panels; chipping and missing small pieces at head, tail, and tips. Gray grained boards and spine with bright red lettering on the spine. Tinted textblock top. 394 pp 8vo. The author is a renown physician who was the long time editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. This book is actually two books in one; 34 chapters which discuss the simple facts concerning all the important phases of modern medical care and a book of medical definitions of common ills and ailments in alphabetical form and cross-referenced for easy use. A clean very presentable book in a Brodart mylar jacket which allows the reader to look back at medical and see how far it has advanced in a short time.