Ashwell, Samuel, M.D., A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE DISEASES PECULIAR TO WOMEN, ILLUSTRATED BY CASES, DERIVED FROM HOSPITAL AND PRIVATE PRACTICE, Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1845.  First American Edition, full leather w/gilt titling on thin black leather label, 8vo (9.0625 x 5.625"), good +, n.a., 520pp., 32pp. adv.  Binding tight in joints and hinges, general wear to all external edges of boards, unreadable previous owner's signature to front free fly-leaf, text block paper lightly age toned with light and sporadic foxing and staining, printed without any illustrations.                                                      
           A fascinating glimpse into the female world of 177 years ago.  A fabulous sector of Captured Tyme - quite the distinctive medical book indeed!