Specifiques electro-homeopathiques. [with] Remedes Mattei Indications Sommaires bound in

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12mo. Hardcover. Contemporary quarter red morocco over marbled boards. 18.5×12.5×1.5 cm. Muller et Pharmacie Sauter. Geneve. 1878. xvi, 247, 16 pp. Portrait frontis, 2 folding plates. Very good, small tear at head of spine, pages lightly toned. French text. Having nothing to do with actual electrotherapy, Mattei’s remedies were supposedly extracted from “vegetable electricity”. An odd variation on the quack medicine of the era. The pamphlet “Remedes Mattei Indications Sommaires” is rare with no copies found in OCLC. In an attractive binding. weight: 0.6 lb.