The religion of health. A lecture.

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Small 8vo. 31[1]pp. Original printed pink-paper wraps, sewn, modern matching plain paper reinforcement strip to spine. Very light spotting to front wrap; with a faint stamp of the Birmingham Medical Institute to the front wrapper and upper margin of page [1]; its library was dispersed by auction in 2012. Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) was the first woman in America to be awarded a medical degree. This pamphlet was one of her earliest works, and the first on her return from New York; its purpose was to promote better hygiene and health education in England and to encourage the formation of a National Health Society, which indeed she founded in 1871. DISCOVER: Birmingham University, Liverpool, Oxford [1869?]. The work was translated into French in 1872 and a 3rd edition was published by the Moral Reforms Union in 1889. N° de ref. del artículo 44713

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