Il seno. Salute e bellezza.

Milano, Xenia Ediz. 1999, cm.13,5x20,5, pp.156, brossura cop.fig.a col. Collana I Libri dell'Altra Scienza.

With an Alphabeticall Table of all the Vertues of each Herb and Simple. New York, Routledge 2003, cm.15,5x23,5, pp.XXII,332, legatura ed.in tutta tela. Leonard Sowerby's self-healing manual for women, The Ladies' Dispensatory, emerged in England in 1652 amidst an abundance of medical self-help books for the lay citizen. Written for both the common patient and the amateur health provider, these manuals of home remedies provided their readers with a variety of potential solutions to common ailments or disease. Sowerby's Dispensatory was written primarily for curing women's health problems, and in that regard, focuses heavily on gynecologic problems (the Dispensatory includes numerous preparations for inducing abortion), breast complaints, personal hygiene and cosmetic applications. Balaban, Erlen and Siderits have resurrected Sowerby's original manuscript and have provided both historical and medical explanation of its uses and usefulness. From a common garlic remedy to 'fortify the brain' to 'a hog's heel, burned to powder' for easing colic, The Ladies' Dispensatory is a delightfully unique look at health and hygiene in the seventeenth century. Also inlcludes nine maps.

Milano, Xenia Ediz. 1994, cm.13,5x20,5, pp.180, brossura cop.fig.a col. Collana I Libri dell'Altra Scienza.

Torino, Ediz.Centro Benessere Psicofisico 1995, cm.14x20,5, pp.165, brossura cop.ill.a col.

Decima edizione, riveduta, emendata e arricchita di nuovi capitoli e dei nuovi rimedi e metodi di cura. Milano, Casa Editrice Dottor Francesco Vallardi 1928, cm.14x22,5, pp.XV,(1),1346,(2), legatura ed. in tutta tela porpora, titoli in oro al piatto ant. e al dorso, angoli dei piatti e del corpo libro stondati. (Firma coeva di appartenenza al frontesp. e a p. 1; segni d'uso alle cerniere esterne e alle cuffie.)