Domestic Medicine: or, A Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines
by BUCHAN, William
Price: $250.00
- Bookseller: Argosy Book Store
- Seller Inventory #: 124390
- Format: Hardcover
- Binding: Hardcover
Book Description
hardcover. With an Appendix, containing a Dispensatory for the Use of Private Practitioners. Adapted to the Climate and Diseases of America by Isaac Cathrall. Small 8vo, cont. leather, worn, front cover detached. Phila.: Richard Folwell, 1797. First published in 1769, the Edinburgh physician's manual was the first work of its kind in England. "Its success was immediate and great... It was translated into all the principal European languages, including Russian, and was more popular on the continent and in America than even in England". By 1805, the year of Buchan's death, nineteen large editions were published in Great Britain and twenty six in the United States. DNB III 181. Austin 313.
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