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An Essay on Regimen. Together with Five Discourses, Medical, Moral and Philosophical: Serving to Illustrate the Principles and Theory of Philosophical Medicin, and point out some of its Moral Consequences, 1st edition, 1740, light water stain, bookplate of the Earl of Granard, front hinge a little tender, all edges gilt, contemporary red calf gilt, joints splitting, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Moffet (Thomas) , Health's Improvement: Or, Rules Comprizing and Discovering the Nature, Method and Manner of Preparing all sorts of Foods Used in this Nation, Corrected and Enlarged by Christopher Bennet, 1746, occasional small manuscript corrections, previous owner inscription to title, occasional light spotting and soiling, later morocco, a few light stains, 8bvo, plus Smith (William) , A Sure Guide in Sickness and Health, in the Choice of Food and use of Medicine, 1st edition, 1776, marginal toning at front, bookplate of Lord Walsingham, contemporary calf, rebacked, 8vo, with others including Lewis Cornaro's Discourses on a Sober and Temperate Life, 1768, George Fordyce's A Treatise on the Digestion of Food, 1791, John Tweed's Popular Observations on Regimen and Diet; in which the Nature and Qualities of our common food are pointed out and explained, circa 1820, J.A. Paris's A Treatise on Diet, 2nd edition, 1827, and J.S. Forsyth's A Practical Treatise on Diet, Regimen and Indigestion, 2nd edition, 1829 (19)