Health, Medicine & Nutrition from Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA

New York: Dr. Jeanne Walter, n.d. [ca. 1915-20]. 24mo (5 3/4 x 3 7/16 inches; 143 x 88 mm), 23, [1] pages, in printed stapled wrappers (soft cover). An early 20th-century version of fat shaming: Dr. Jeanne Walter promises to reduce your "superfluous flesh" if you buy her medicated rubber garments. "Any physician will tell you that by inducing… Read more about this item

New York: Gallia Laboratories, Inc., 1926. 24mo (5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches; 138 x 107 mm), 8 pages, in stapled wrappers. Promotional pamphlet for Kola Astier, a product possessing "remarkable curative and stimulative properties quite unknown to any other preparation." According to the manufacturer, Gallia Laboratories, Kola Astier builds muscular strength, fights fatigue, relieves depression and "melancholia," stimulates… Read more about this item

New York: Marston Remedy Company, 1905. Revised Edition. 16mo (6 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches; 162 x 113 mm), 32 pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). Pamphlet from a company offering "medicated" suppositories and contraptions that purportedly treat men's sexual, nervous, and urinary disorders. One "treatment" involves cocoa butter. "The suppository now glides into the rectum with the most… Read more about this item