The effets of arts, trades, and professions, and of civic states and habits of living, on health and longevity. 2nd ed

The effects of arts, trades, and professions, and of civic states and habits of living, on health and longevity: with suggestions for the removal of many of the agents which produce disease, and shorten the duration of life. 8vo. viii, 238, [2, adverts.]pp. London: Longman. . . , 1832. 225 x 140 mm. Original cloth, rebacked with new paper spine label, light wear. Minor toning and spotting but otherwise very good. 19th-century stamp of the New York Hospital on the title and first page of text; "New York Hospital" in 19th-century hand on the flyleaf.

Second and Best Edition of Garrison-Morton.com 2123, the first English treatise on occupational medicine, which attracted attention from both medical men and laymen at the time of its original publication the year before and played an important part in stimulating the factory and health legislation that mitigated some of the worst features of the Industrial Revolution. The second edition was augmented by over 100 pages describing 120 occupations not covered in the first edition. Hunter, Diseases of Occupations (1957), pp. 116-21. Norman 2064A. Simon, English Sanitary Institutions (1890), pp. 125-27.