The Preservation of Health. With Remarks on Constipation, Old Age, Use of Alcohol in the Preparation of Medicines

  • Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854
By WARREN, John C.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854. 16mo (17cm). Brown cloth, titled in gilt; plain endpapers; 140pp. Straight and tight, corners bumped, cloth rubbed over spine: Very Good.

"The text of Warren's 1846 Physical education and the preservation of health is reproduced in full, with twenty-two pages of new matter" (Hoolihan). Warren argued that the American educational system has priorizited intellectual development over physical health; his 1846 work was "one of the first American works on the value of exercise for the preservation of health" (Garrison-Morton). ATWATER 3715. Uncommon in the trade.

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