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A MEDICAL MAN. Juvenile smoking: an essay setting forth to the young the evil effects which result from an indulgence of the habit of tobacco-smoking.

Bodmin. Liddel and Son, 1883. First edition.
8vo. 16pp. Original publisher's printed green wrappers. Extremities dulled, chipping to edges, loss to spine. Text-block detached from wrappers. Ink-stamps of the British Museum to verso of title page and foot of p.16.
The sole edition of an anonymous provincially published monograph warning of the dangers of children taking up the habit of smoking, from a clouding of the intellect to the increased chance of developing cancer.

The usual databases record copies at three locations (Bangor, BL, and KB).
£ 150.00 Antiquates Ref: 29777