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Description
PHYSIOLOGY, ANIMAL AND MENTAL: APPLIED TO THE PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION OF HEALTH OF BODY, AND POWER OF MIND
Book Details + Condition: Fowlers and Wells (New York). Early Edition, 1855. Hardcover. 312 pages with 25 phrenology charts and Illustrations, and advertisements in rear. Orson Squire Fowler developed and popularized Phrenology as a mainstream medical science. Contents include: Health – Its Laws and Preservation; Reciprocation Existing between Body and Mind; Food, Its Necessity and Selection; How to Eat, or Mastication; The Regulation of the Temperature by Fire and Clothing; The Brain and Nervous System; and more. An overall firm and clean copy, with tight binding; rubbed corners and edges; toning and foxing to first few and last blank pages & title page; sporadic toning and foxing to text pages; interior is otherwise free of markings, save owner's info on front free endpaper.
