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'...Containing the best modern methods for treatment of women's and children's diseases with a comprehensive index of symptoms.' Some listings of this book designate it as being first published in 1912 ( the date of the Australian Copyr4ight Act) but it was in fact first published in 1917 (Reference: https://encyclopedia.adventist.org/article?id=183E). Earlier editions are credited to Eulalia and Franklin Richards, her husband (also a doctor). Later revised and expanded editions are credited to Eulalia Richards only. A comprehensive manual for home health, it covers courtship and marriage; what is necessary for a successful marriage; sex; nutrition for mothers-to-be and children; chest, heart and blood diseases; urinary and genital diseases; nervous disorders and skin diseases; ear, nose, throat and eye problems; infectious diseases; tuberculosis; the relationship between health and women's dress fashions; bladder and bowel issues; puberty, menstruation and menopause; venereal diseases; health in middle life and home/first aid treatments. There's a great deal here that is commonsense, some treatments that definitely would NOT be used today and much to interest the medical student/historian. Illustrated. -
Black Ivory: Norman Collins
$20.00Comparable to Treasure Island or Mutiny on the Bounty, here is a story of high adventure, mutiny and high-jacking told in the first person by a 13 year-old boy who runs away from home to seek a fortune for his family. Ralph Raikes is the son of a farmer who has been evicted from his holding by an unjust landlord. He goes to Liverpool where a gang of scoundrels force him to sign on as a cabin boy under the notorious Captain Swing. He recounts his terrifying, strange experiences on board the Nero, which he discovers to be a slave ship bound for another load of 'black ivory' from Africa. There are many adventures, lessons and triumphs before Ralph goes home. With black and white illustrations. -
Humankind has developed three ways of recording its existence: History, folklore and - yarn. History is what really happened; folklore is what people believe happened; and yarns don't care what really happened - they're the way of keeping it all interesting! Mike Hayes - winner of the World Yarn-Spinning Championships, 1991 - embarked on a personal crusade to collect and record as many contemporary Australian yarns as possible. And no-one can tell a yarn like an Aussie. Not for the politically correct or easily offended!
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On of the liveliest characters in Australian history is Sir Henry Browne Hayes, the Irish knight who was transported for abducting a Quaker heiress and who surrounded his house with Irish earth to keep the snakes away. This is the tale of his adventures and tales of some of his friends not known to history - especially Gos Blackthorn, a young man who did not know his real name or parentage, and Mary McGregor, the Quaker girl he loved. Their fortunes are caught up in the fortunes of the new colony, from the rising of the Irish convicts at Castle Hill to the Rum Rebellion. Gos becomes a fugitive, escaping to new country with the aborigines, while Sir Henry alternates between dispensing lavish hospitality at Vaucluse House and paying for his indiscretions in the chain-gangs or coal-mines. There is also Patsy O'Neill, Sir Henry's groom who follows Sir Henry to Australia and becomes a farmer on the Hawkesbury. A fabulous story, woven into the fabric of Australia's rough-and-tumble early history. Trivia - Frank O'Grady is the brother of author John O'Grady, a.k.a. Nino Culotta. -
What a world of dreams is this Pompeii, where each one seeks to be what he is not... Pompeii, pleasure ground of the wealthy, decadent and rife with corruption. A cast of characters to rival any soap opera: Clodius, poor yet noble, in love with Julia, the daughter of nouveau riche merchant Diomed, who is trying to forget that his grandfather was ever a slave; Glaucus, the young and wealthy Greek playboy who falls in love with Ione, a wealthy orphan under the wardship of Arbaces, High Priest of Isis, who will stop at nothing to secure Ione and her fortune for the temple; Nydia, the blind slave girl who sells her flowers and yearns for Glaucus; Lydon, the gladiator, the darling of Pompeii, fighting to win enough money to buy the freedom of Medon, his father; there is Apaecides, Ione's brother who learns of Christ from Olinthus, the sail maker...and still more in the cast that make up the last days of the city that was believed to be the wickedest place on earth. -
Volume III of the Industrial and Social History series. The history of our ancestors in the age of the chase - the time of hunting that necessitated invention of new weapons, the study of herd migration, the re-designing of tool and much more, told in an easy fictional fashion with plenty of rotogravure illustrations. First published in 1911, this is the 1938 edition and this book is still in print today. -
Here is a story of the Highlands and the red deer that live there as seen through the eyes of Roddie and Flora, the children of Murdo MacKenzie, a stalker. There is not only a tale, but information on how the red deer live and their beautiful country. Sir Frank Fraser Darling (23 June 1903 – 22 October 1979) was an English ecologist, ornithologist, farmer, conservationist and author, who is strongly associated with the highlands and islands of Scotland. -
Compiled for Methuen in the early 1970s by the young Monty Python team at the height of their surreal powers and was published on the heels of the improbable success of the Monty Python's Flying Circus television series. A surreal delight, the Papperbok was a testing ground for ideas equally as fresh and funny as the Flying Circus material. It is full of colorful and rude illustrations by Terry Gilliam, oddball instruction sheets and booklets, schoolboy stories of adventure and mischief, misleading horoscopes, informative and thrilling features-such as Hamster: A Warning; The Python Book of Etiquette and The London Casebook of Detective Ren Descartes, zany competitions, fake editorials, spurious film reviews and some of the oddest miscellany ever pressed between the pages of a book. A must for any sincere Python fan who has ever done a Silly Walk or has practised the Art Of Not Being Seen. -
Described as romance shorts - with definite twists and turns in every tale - this volume contains: The Odds/Without Prejudice: A young woman, without realising it, meets a man on the run from the law. Sparks fly but he must keep running. Time passes...she gets engaged to a law man. What happens when the woman and the convict meet again? Her Own Free : An impetuous girl agrees to marry a Boer millionaire for his money. After an accident which keeps the couple separated for a year, she's not so sure that she wants to be married...The Consolation Prize: A young woman, in love with a local farmer, agrees to marry an eccentric lord to save her family from poverty. But rather than two lives being ruined by sacrifice, her sister proposes a shocking solution. Her Freedom: A free-spirited girl calls off her engagement - not in the usual way, but by an announcement in the Society columns. her soon-to-be former fiance responds by posting the wedding date in the same column. She then meets a wild, bushy bearded Canadian man and rather than allow her mischievous cousin Dick to polish off the Canadian's rough edges, she thinks he will 'do' just as he is. Is this true love? Or infatuation? Death's Property: A wealthy man, disillusioned man returns to the seaside village of his birth, disgusted at the world and himself for having served the 'God of Gold' for 20 years in America. Irritated by a shrill American accent, he finds the voice belongs to a real beauty. But according to her cousin, she is 'untouchable...' The Sacrifice: When a young Society girl's admirer is falsely accused of forgery, she will do anything to clear his name...she will even submit to blackmail...
