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MEDICINE / BENGALI: চিকিৎসার্ণব। [Treatment. Third Edition]

620.00

Calcutta: পুস্তকালয় হইতে | শ্রীবাণেশ্বর ঘোষ দ্বারা [Shrivaneshwar Ghosh] 1302 [1886].

Narrow 8°, [4 pp.] title with illustration followed by index, 36 pp., contemporary green paper boards and brown linen spine, brown endpapers (minor discoloration and staining to the wrappers, internally with only light staining, otherwise in a good condition, tiny chips in margins of endpapers, pp. 5-6 with a narrow loss of paper and a tine hole in the number in the upper number) (#70675).

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A rare medical book in Bengali language, printed in Calcutta, lists on 36 pages short instructions for various treatments, based on natural ingredients, for daily diseases such as indigestion, toothache, pain and blood pressure, for more private issues, including venereal diseases, and also for accidents, such as wasp and snake bites as well as for injuries caused by a tiger, after the person has been released from its mouth.

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