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Complete Domestic Medicine; Or, A Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases, by Regimen and Simple Medicine. With Additions and Improvements Containing Treatises on Those Diseases Omitted by the Author, and on the New Discoveries in Medicine and Surgery; Also, Dr. Cullen's Characteristic Symptons of Diseases. To Which is Added The Compendium of Anatomy with Twelve Illustrations.
Buchan, William · Otley
- Author
- Buchan, William
- Date
- c1850
- Place
- Otley
- Publisher
- William Walker and Sons.
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 16mo.(3.5" x 5.875") 620 pp. Full brown cloth with embossed design to boards. Spine with gilt lettering and gilt skeleton vignette. Yellow endpapers. Edgewear, corners lightly bumped and rubbed, head and foot of spine ruffled with tiny closed tears. Spine sun-darkened. Front hinge separating after title page, mesh visible, rear starting, boards still secure. Endpapers foxed(?) with small spots all over. Title page with prior ownership in pencil to head, not affecting text. Illustrated with 12 plates of human anatomy, skeletons.
- Format
- Domestic Medicine; Or, a Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases was originally written by the Scottish physician William Buchan (1729–1805) and first published in 1769. It became one of the most popular and influential health and self-care manuals of the 18th and 19th centuries, designed to make medical knowledge accessible to the general public
- Category
- Science & Medicine
- Record
- S.I.10291
Complete Domestic Medicine; Or, A Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases, by Regimen and Simple Medicine. With Additions and Improvements Containing Treatises on Those Diseases Omitted by the Author, and on the New Discoveries in Medicine and Surgery; Also, Dr. Cullen's Characteristic Symptons of Diseases. To Which is Added The Compendium of Anatomy with Twelve Illustrations by William Buchan.
16mo.(3.5" x 5.875") 620 pp. c. 1850, Otley: William Walker and Sons: Full brown cloth with embossed design to boards. Spine with gilt lettering and gilt skeleton vignette. Yellow endpapers. Edgewear, corners lightly bumped and rubbed, head and foot of spine ruffled with tiny closed tears. Spine sun-darkened. Front hinge separating after title page, mesh visible, rear starting, boards still secure. Endpapers foxed(?) with small spots all over. Title page with prior ownership in pencil to head, not affecting text. Illustrated with 12 plates of human anatomy, skeletons.
Domestic Medicine; Or, a Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases was originally written by the Scottish physician William Buchan (1729–1805) and first published in 1769. It became one of the most popular and influential health and self-care manuals of the 18th and 19th centuries, designed to make medical knowledge accessible to the general public
Condition
Good
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