Found this 1500 page medical book from 1909 in my attic! Can u help me price it?

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Helping my dad around the house and we were up in the attic and I niticed a boarded up eve with newspaper insulation pasted to the boards from 1912! I just had to investigate.

I tore down the false wall to find a single book case with this 1500 page book sitting in teh middle of this hidden room. Straight up Goosebumps shyt.

Anyway, its leather bound, in pretty fair shape for almost 100 years old! I was paging through it and found the Original Recipt for the thing!

The book was bought from a travelling sales man for 10 dollars on April 16th 1910. The recipt details the payment plan for the entire $10 and the signatures of the salesman and the buyer! Edwin F. Walker.

This book is insane! It has treatments for all sorts of things I have never heard of, Milk Leg for instance. Then it goes into detail about how to blood lete the Milked leg and how to stich it back up using skin on a pig for gauze!!!!!

How about a treatment for Drunkards Delirium? It then describes differnt LEAD based medications for treatment!

This is nuts, It has Tissue paper pages that lift to show cross sections in immaculate condition. My jaw drops everytime I crack it up and read another chapter title.

For instance, the life probability for a newborn in 1909 was 50% before the first 5 months of life!

I brought it into work tonight and I've had a butt load of doctors looking at it, they're paging each other to come look at it. This book is nuts.

/NerdyMedicalGeekRant

Now, can someone please help me look up what this thing is worth?

The Household Physician
Published in 1909 by the F.S. Woodruff comp. out of London, England
Leather bound

Thanks a ton!