![[Item #56279] The Preservation of Health. With Remarks on Constipation, Old Age, Use of Alcohol in the Preparation of Medicines. John C. WARREN.](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/56279.jpg?auto=webp&v=1638234250)
The Preservation of Health. With Remarks on Constipation, Old Age, Use of Alcohol in the Preparation of Medicines
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.
Price: $200.00
