Means of preserving health, and preventing diseases: founded principally on an attention to air and climate, drink, food, sleep, exercise, clothing, passions of the wind, and retentions and excretions. With an appendix, containing observations on bathing, cleanliness, ventilation, and medical electricity; and on the abuse of medicine. Enriched with apposite extracts from the best authors. Designed not merely for physicians, but for the information of others. To which is annexed, a glossary of the technical terms contained in the work ... / [Shadrach Ricketson].

  • Ricketson, Shadrach.
Date:
[1806]
  • Books

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New-York : Printed by Collins, Perkins, and co., sold by them, S. Stansbury; Philadelphia : Kimber & Conrad, [etc.; etc.)], [1806]

Physical description

1 unnumbered leaf, x, 298 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; (12mo)

References note

Austin 1608

Notes

"Appendix": p. [243]-289
"A glossary of the technical terms": p. [290]-298
Copy 1 Note: Publisher's catalogue on final leaf.

Bibliographic information

"Medical books [for sale by] Collins, Perkins, & Co": p. [299-300]

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