Medical Pahlications of F. A. Davis, Philadelphia. 

 SSOJE3IAKER 



Heredity, Health, and Personal Beauty. 



Incllding 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, Phar- 

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

 of the Skin iu the 3Iedico-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 the 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. TJiis is just tJie book to place on the 

 icaiting-room table of every physician, and a work that will prove usefal in tlce hands 

 of your patients. 



Complete in one handsome Royal Octavo volume of 430 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, q»2.50; Half-Morocco, $3.50, 

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

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

 IB fr.; Half-Morocco, 22 fr. 



The book reada not like the fulfillment of a '[ pleased, and improved. — TVie Southern Clinic. 



task, but like the researches and observations | This book is written pi iiiiarily for the laity, 



of one thoioushly in love with his subject, | but will prove of interest to the physician as 



fully appreciating its importance, and writing well. Though the author goes to souie extent 



for the pleasure he experiences in it. The [ into technicalities, he confines hinitelf to the 



work is very coini)rehen.sive and comjilete in 

 its scope. — Medical World. 



The book liefore us is a most remarkable 

 production and a most entertaining one. The 

 book is equally well adapted for the laity or 

 the profe:^sjon." It tells us how to be healthy. 



use of good, plain English, and in that respect 

 sets a notable example to many other writers 

 on similar subjects. Furtheniiore, the book 

 is writtCTi from a thoroughly American stand- 

 point. — Medical Record. 

 This is an exceedingly interesting book, 



happy, and as beautiful as possible. We can't ' both scientific and practical in character, in 

 review this book ; it is uitfereiit from anything I tended for both prolessional and lay readers. 

 we have ever read. It runs like a novel, and j The book is well written and presented in ad- 

 will be perused until finished with pleasure | miralile form by the publisher. — Ganadian 

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



SBOEMAKEB 



Ointments and Oleates : """''"tf.W su?^!'^'*'* 



By John V. Shoemaker, A.M., M. !>., Professor of Materia 3Iedica, Phar- 

 macology, Therapeutics, and Clinical 3Iedicine, and Clinical Professor of Diseases 

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



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

 thus obtain a conspectus of the whole subject of inunction as it exists to-dav 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. 398 pages. 13mo. Neatly bound 

 in Dark-Blue Cloth. Ifo. 6 in the Physicians' and Students' Ready -Reference Series. 



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

 Britain, 8s. 6d. ; in France, 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 phj'sician. — 

 Canada, Medical Jiecord. 



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 

 fonuulce which dot its pages, while the copious 

 index at tlie back materially aids in making 

 To the physician who feels uncertain as to i the book a useful one. — Medical News. 



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