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[1821] Domestic Medicine; or, A Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases By Regimen and Simple Medicines
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Description
Original Binding
A new edition.
Illustrated with occasional monochrome vignettes.
First published in 1769, this is physician William Buchan's best known work, in which he provides laypeople with detailed descriptions of the causes and prevention of disease, with the goal of 'laying medicine more open to mankind'. This work was extremely popular with over 80,000 copies and 19 editions sold in Buchan's lifetime, it was one of the most popular medical texts of the eighteenth century.
Bound in full cloth with a leather spine label. Endpapers and blanks renewed.
Condition
Bound in full cloth with a leather spine label. Endpapers and blanks renewed. Externally, light marks to the boards, with a small closed tear to the head of the front joint, and slight wear to the extremities. Internally firmly bound with bright pages with occasional minor handling marks and tidemarks to the index to the rear. Owner's ink signatures with slight loss to the tail of the title page, with tidemarks to the tail of the first few pages.
Very Good
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