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Title: Domestic Medicine; or, the Family Physician: being an attempt to render the Medical Art more generally useful, by shewing People what is in their own Power both with respect to the Prevention and Cure of Diseases... Author: Buchan, William Place: Norwich [CT] Publisher: Printed by James Trumbill, for Robert Hodge, et al. Date: 1778 Description: [2], xiv, [4], [17]-436 pp. 7¼x4½, period calf. Third American Edition. American edition of Buchan's influential book on home medical treatment and prevention. "Buchan first published Domestic medicine at Edinburgh in 1769. It had an enormous circulation, no fewer than nineteen editions being published during the author's lifetime, and it continued in print until the mid-nineteenth century. Buchan gives simple and easily followed advice in this book and deals at considerable length with various matters that may affect the health, such as diet, ventilation, sleep, cleanliness, and infection. The greater part of the treatise is taken up with a description of the causes, management, and treatment of diseases, such as fevers, pneumonia, smallpox, whooping cough, and colic. His remarks are of lasting value and give valuable insight into the relationship between social conditions and disease in the eighteenth century." Heirs of Hippocrates 991 (for 1784 edition). Lot Amendments Condition: Covers worn, bowed, leather peeled at top of rear board; some marginal loss to early and latter leaves, some staining, good condition. Item number: 204890