1823 The New Domestic Medicine: or, A Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases By Regimen and Simple Medicines...To Which is Now Added, Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Buchan and Important Extracts from Other Works Particularly his Advice to Mothers..etc

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Illustrated, Leather Binding, Original Binding

A new edition, enlarged and improved, being a combined edition featuring Buchan's 'The New Domestic Medicine; or, A Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines...etc' and William Nisbet's Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Buchan'. 

Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and seven monochrome plates. Collated, complete. 

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. This edition combines this renowned medical work with a memoir on his life by William Nisbet, and extracts from his other notable work 'Advice to Mothers', which provides health advice for mothers and their children. 

Bound in full contemporary calf.