An Inquiry into the Cause of Natural Death, or Death from Old Age. Developing a New and Certain Method of Preventing the Consolidation or Ossification of the Body, and of Thus Indefinitely Prolonging Vigorous, Elastic, and Buoyant Health; and of Rendering Parturition Easy and Safe.
New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1851. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Boards stained along fore-edge, ink name on front endpapers.
viii, 152 pp. 12mo. Brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt titles. "Bostwick attributes aging's deleterious effects on the body to 'calcareous earthy matter' derived from food and drink that virtually hardens.....