The household physician : for the use of families, planters, seamen, and travellers ; being a brief description, in plain language, of all the diseases of men, women, and children, with the newest and most approved methods of curing them / by Ira Warren.
A domestic medical manual by Ira Warren, published in Boston in 1866 for families, planters, seamen and travellers, describing diseases and their treatments in plain language. Its wood-engraved figures mix anatomical details and deformities with instructional poses of men holding dumb-bells, drawn in spare outline with hatched shading and dotted motion arcs useful as clean line diagrams.
