Medical Publications of F. A. Davis, Philadelphia. 



Heredity, Health, and Personal Beauty. 



Including the Selection of the Best Cosmetics for the Skin, Hair, 

 Nails, and all Parts Relating to the Body. 



By John V. Shoemaker, AM., M.D., Professor of Materia Medica, Pliar- 

 macology. Therapeutics, and Clinical Medicine, and Clinical Professor of Diseases 

 of the Skin in the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia; Physician to the 

 Medico-Chirurgical Hospital, etc., etc. 



The health of the skin and hair, and how to promote them, are discussed; 

 the treatment of the nails; the subjects of ventilation, food, clothing, warmth, 

 bathing; the circulation of the blood, digestion, ventilation; in fact, all that in 

 daily life conduces to the well-being of tlie body and refinement is duly enlarged 

 upon. To these stores of popular information is added a list of the best medicated 

 soaps and toilet soaps, and a whole chapter of the work is devoted to household 

 remedies. The work is largely suggestive, and gives wise and timely advice as 

 to when a physician should be consulted. This is just the hook to place on the 

 waiting-room table of every physician, and a loork that will prove usefal in the Jiands 

 of your patients. 



Complete in one handsome Royal Octavo volume of 435 pages, beautifully 

 and clearly printed, and bound in Extra Cloth, Beveled Edges, with side and 

 back gilt stomps and in Half-Morocco Gilt Top. 



Price, in United States, post-paid, Cloth, ;|»2.50,* Half-Morocco, $3.50, 

 net. Canada (duty paid), Cloth, $2.75; Half-Morocco, $3.90, net. 

 Great Britain, Cloth, 14s. ; Half-Morocco, 19s. 6d. France, Cloth, 

 15 fr.; Half-Morocco, 22 fr. 



The book reads not like the fulfillment of a 

 task, but like the researches and observations 

 of one thoronglily in love with his subject, 

 fully appreciating its importance, and writing 

 for the pleasure he experiences in it. The 

 work is very cnmpiehensive and complete in 

 its sco\Mi.— Medical World. 



The book before us is a most remarkable 

 production and a most entertaining one. The 

 book is eqvially well adapted for the laity or 

 the profession."^ It tells us how to be healthy, 

 happy, and as beautiful as possible. We can't 

 review this book ; it is uifferent from anything 

 we have ever read. It runs like a novel, and 

 will be perused uatil finished with pleasure 

 and profit. Buy it, read it, and be surprised, 



pleased, and improved.— 77ie Southern Clinic. 



This book is written ]>rin!arily for the laity, 

 but will prove of interest to tlie physician as 

 well. Though the author goes to some extent 

 into technicalities, he confines himself to the 

 use of good, plain English, and in that respect 

 sets a notable example to many other wiiters 

 on similar subjects. Furthermore, the book 

 is written from a thoroughly American stand- 

 point.— iV/fd/cai Record. ^ 



This is an exceedingly interei^ting book, 

 both scientific and practical in character, in- 

 tended for both professional and lay readers. 

 The book is well written and presented in ad- 

 mirable form by the publisher, — Ganadian 

 jPractitioner. 



SHOE3IAKEB 



Ointments and Oleates : 



Bspecially in Diseases 

 of tlie Skin. 



By John V. Shoemaker, A.M., M.l>., Professor of Materia Medica, Phar- 

 macology, Therapeutics, and Clinical Medicine, and Clinical Professor of Diseases 

 of the Skin in the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia, etc., etc. 



The author concisely concludes his preface as follows : "The reader may 

 thus obtain a conspectus of the whole subject of inunction as it exists to-day in 

 the civilized world. In all cases the mode of preparation is given, and the thera- 

 peutical application described seriatim, in so far as may be done without needless 

 repetition." 



Second Edition, revised and enlarged. 298 pages. 12mo. Neatly bound 

 in Dark-Blue Cloth. ]!^o. 6 in the Physicians' and Students' Beady-Reference Series. 



Price, post-paid, in the United States and Canada, $1.50, net; in Great 

 Britain, 8s. 6d. ; in Prance, 9 fr. 35. 



It is invaluable as a ready reference when 

 ointments or oleates are to be used, and is 

 serviceable to both druggist and physician.— 

 Canada Medical Record. 



To the physician who feels uncertain as to 



the best form in which to prescribe medicines 

 by wav of the skin the book will prove valu- 

 able, owing to the many prescriptions and 

 formula? which dot its pages, while the copious 

 index at the back materially aids in making 

 the book a useful one.— Medical News. 



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