
Language
en
Duration
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Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Louise Hope, David Newman, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2006-11-27
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects
Part medical guide, part promotional booklet, this early-20th-century work grew out of a family-run hernia-treatment business in Bloomfield, New Jersey. It offers plainspoken advice, strong salesmanship, and a revealing look at how health problems were explained to everyday readers a century ago.
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