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An Essay on Indigestion; Or Morbid Sensibility of The Stomach and Bowels, as The Proximate Cause or Characteristic Condition of Dyspepsy, Nervous Irritability, Mental Despondency, Hypochondriasis, and Many Other Ailments of Body and Mind. To Which are Added, Observtions on the Diseases & Regimen of Invalids on Their Return from Hot and Unhealthy Climates. Third Philadelphia, From the Sixth London Edition, Much Enlarged.

Johnson, James · Philadelphia

Author
Johnson, James
Date
1831
Place
Philadelphia
Publisher
Nathan Kite
Language
English
Binding
12mo.(4" x 7.125") 194 pp Full brown speckled calf. Spine with gilr lettering to red leather label towards head. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with a little loss to the lower tips, head and foot of spine rubbed. Covers rubbed, scuffed at extremities. Foxing throughout, lower hinges starting.
Category
Science & Medicine
Record
S.I.8433

An Essay on Indigestion; Or Morbid Sensibility of The Stomach and Bowels, as The Proximate Cause or Characteristic Condition of Dyspepsy, Nervous Irritability, Mental Despondency, Hypochondriasis, and Many Other Ailments of Body and Mind. To Which are Added Observations on the Diseases & Regimen of Invalids on Their Return from Hot and Unhealthy Climates. Third Philadelphia, From the Sixth London Edition, Much Enlarged. 1831. Philadelphia: Nathan Kite.

24mo.(3" x 4.75") 240 + (8) pp. Full dark brown pebbled leather with multiple gilt frames to covers. Spine with five raised bands, gilt lettering to the second compartment, gilt-framed gilt decoration to all other compartments. All edges gilt. Edgewear, corners lightly bumped and rubbed. First signature coming loose from spine at top, still firmly attached, front gutter split, upper hinge tender. Engraved half-title page.

James Johnson (1777–1845) was a British physician and prolific medical writer in the early 19th century, best known for his work on digestion and practical medicine. He authored the influential book An Essay on Indigestion; or, Morbid Sensibility of the Stomach and Bowels, first published in 1827 and widely read in both Britain and the United States.

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