The Stomach and Its Trials: A handbook of human health, containing simple, clear, and familiar truths

Green cloth 8vo, 111pp. Bright gilt-stamped cover with exciting typography and triple! exclamation! points! Lacking rear free endpaper, about 10 pages with pencil marks, else Very Good with upper corner bumped throughout and light surface wear to cloth. Pastedown signed "Mrs. Barnard(?), with note on ffep, "Belle, read page 91." Two plates and multiple in-text illustrations.

Essentially a 111-page ad for Eno's Fruit Salt, in the guise of a generalized treatise on health. Includes the reverse psychology "Advice to would-be suicides,” among the bounty of dubious advice. A handful of footnotes throughout the text endorse other products available from  R. H. and J. Pearson, including "portable vapour baths" and "masticating machines... to those especially who are minus teeth they will be very valuable." Among hints to mothers, "Two tea-spoonfuls of whisky mixed with half a tea-cupful of cream is very nutritious" (53) and that children should not wash within two hours of eating.