Rules for the preservation of health : being the result of many years practice / by J. Forthergell.

London : Printed for J. Pridden, at the Feathers, no 100. in Fleet-Street, [1770?]

iv, 13-151 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 12mo (17 cm)

The sixth edition, with the following additions ... ; Dr. Jurin's account of the effects of soap-lye ... ; The history of Mrs. Stephens's medicines for the cure of the stone ... ; The present new method of inoculation, the small-pox ...

ESTC T73144

Originally published in 1762.

"[Fothergill] was not, however, the author of the work entitles Rules for the Preservation of Health, by J. Forthergell, which was compiled by an unscrupulous bookseller from works by other authors"--DNB, entry for Fothergill.

Publication date suggested by ESTC; Thomas Ruston's Essay on inoculation, cited on p. 151, originally published in 1767.

Signatures: [A]² B-M⁶ N⁴.

Not in Blake.

Copy 1. Supplier/Donor: Med. Soc. Lond.