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A signed first edition of Richard Metcalfe's scarce biography of Vincenz Priessnitz, with the bookplate of dermatologist Arthur Rook. A signed copy of the scarce first edition of this biographical study, with the inscription 'with the authors compliment, March 1899' to the front free endpaper.Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and twenty eight photographic images. Collated, complete.Richard Metcalfe offers a biography of Austrian peasant farmer Vincenz Priessnitz considered to be the founder of modern hydrotherapy and for laying the foundations of what became known as the 'Nature Cure', through his support of a vegetarian diet and the use of cold water as a curative.With the bookplate of prominent British dermatologist Arthur Rooke (1918-1991) to the front pastedown. Rooke was the principal author of 'Rook's Textbook of Dermatology', which reached its ninth edition in 2016.A signed copy of this scarce work, with an interesting medical provenance. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to spine head and tail, with slight fading to back strip. Bookplate to front pastedown, inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned with the odd spot, but generally clean and bright. Very Good
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