Weak Lungs; and How to Make Them Strong. Or, Diseases of the organs of the chest, with their home treatment by the movement cure
- Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. Very Good. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's plum blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine, brown glazed endpapers; [2],vii,[8]-360pp.; illus. throughout. Cloth margins and spine sunned, gilt dulled, corners bumped, textblock toned, else a Very Good, sound copy overall.
Rare first edition of this highly-popular guide to building strong lungs. Early in their marriage the author's wife Helen Cecilia Clarke was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis for which Lewis invented a system of recovery. "The most important part of this work...is the description of his own ten-week course of home exercise, illustrated in a series of 105 wood engravings" (Atwater). Many of the engravings show a woman lifting weights in a short frock, possibly made after Helen herself.
ATWATER 2242.
Rare first edition of this highly-popular guide to building strong lungs. Early in their marriage the author's wife Helen Cecilia Clarke was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis for which Lewis invented a system of recovery. "The most important part of this work...is the description of his own ten-week course of home exercise, illustrated in a series of 105 wood engravings" (Atwater). Many of the engravings show a woman lifting weights in a short frock, possibly made after Helen herself.
ATWATER 2242.