8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; vii - 355 pp. Wine red cloth over boards with gilt lettering on spine and blind stamped border rules on the front and back boards. First published in 1915, this is the fifth printing. Illustrated with 14 full page black and white photographs one of which is the frontispiece. The externals show only very mild wear, the head edge of the text block has some surface foxing and it is noticed that three pages have small closed tears in the tail margins which do not affect any text. Otherwsie very clean with a tight binding. This volume comes from the personal library of a turn of the century general practitioner from Eganville, a small jewel of a town in the Ottawa Valley, Ontario.