This is a superb set of four books, divided into four divisions.

Division One covers "Health and Disease"

This part has been divided into sections, each section being devoted to one set of organs. For example the bones and joints are considered in one section, the nervous system in another, the digestive organs in a third, and so on.
The first half of each section (A) describes the particular organs in their healthy condition, and the second half (B) discusses the diseases to which they are liable.

Division Two covers "Hygiene"

The second division of the book is devoted to Hygiene, or the conditions of health as regards food, drink, clothing, exercise, etc.

Division Three covers "Drugs and Remedial Agents"

The third division, some space is devoted to explain the nature and mode of action of drugs and other remedial agents; drugs being classified here according to their varying actions on the human system. but this part includes more than mere drugs. Many of the modern methods of dealing with disease are far removed from the mere administration of a pill or the mixing of a potion. Electricity is daily proving itself to be as valuable an agent in medicine as it is in commerce, and the right principles on which it ought to be used are therefore here considered. Massage, or medical rubbing, another new and formidable antagonist to ill-health, will also find place.

Division Four covers "Accidents and Emergencies"

In the remaining portion of the book some shorter chapters will be found, on methods of dealing with "Accidents and Emergiencies" and on various ailments requiring surgical treatment that could not well be placed in the first division of the book. Also brief notices of the commoner Surgical Instruments and their mode of use; a chapter on Sick-nursing and an Appendix containing recipes for Invalid Cookery and notes for medical Prescriptions.

There are numerous illustrations throughout the four divisions, they will consist of about four hundred figures printed in the text, showing all necessary details of the various parts of the human body, and a series of nineteen engraved plates, many of them printed in colour, representing poisonous plants thay frequently lead to accidents, or exhibiting the apperance of the skin in the most frequent eruptive diseases.
Each division contains 280 pages of letterpress, besides engraved plates.

The Books are in very good condition, the spines are in good condition, suffering slight wear to the top and bottom, the gilt is in good order.
The book covers are in good overall condition, having slight wear, but nothing serious. There are a few pages with some minor foxing but over 98% are in very good condition.

It is rare to find the complete works, and in such good condition, and it is, to my knowledge a first edition publication.