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HANDS, FEET, FINGERS & TOES.. Economy of the Hands and Feet, Fingers and Toes, which includes the prevention, treatment, and cure, of corns, bunnions, and deformed nails; the removal of excrescences, superfluous hairs, freckles, pimples, blotches, and other cutaneous eruptions; with safe and certain methods of rendering the skin white, soft, and delicate, without detriment to health. By an old army surgeon.1830

London: Published by Effingham Wilson, First edition, small 8vo (165 x 100 mm), xvi, 108 + 18pp., of adverts, lithographed frontis., (with a light stain in the lower blank corner), orig. pictorial printer paper boards, printed paper spine label, spine worn, upper board holding by cords. An uncommon book, though it did run to some four editions by 1836. Ten pages are devoted to 'Curious particulars relative to the origin of the history of gloves'. The same author also published, in 1830, 'Economy of the Teeth'.

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