Author: TISSOT (Samuel August David):
Title: Advice to the People in General, With Regard to their Health: But more particularly calculated for those, by their distance from regular Physiciasn, or oher very experienced Practitioners, are the most unlikely to be seasonably provided with the best Advices and Assistance, in some Diseases, or upon any sudden inward or outward Accident. With A Table of the most cheap, yet effectual Remedies, and the plainest Directions for preparing them readily. Translated from the French Edition of Dr. Tissot's Avis au Peuple, &c. Printed at Lyons; with all his own Notes; a few of his medical Editor's at Lyons; and several occasional Notes, adapted to this English Trandlaton. By J. Kirkpatrick, M. D.
Description: Dublin: Printed for J. Hoey..., 1766 8vo, 198 x 120 mms., pp. [iii] iv - xix [xx blank], 368 [369 - 372 Contents], contemporary calf, red morocco label; corners slightly worn, but a very good copy. The first English translation of Tissot's work was published in 1765, and its immediate popularity documented an increasing awareness by a growing middle-class population of health matters. Tissot (1728 - 1797), a Swiss general practitioner, published his work in 1761. Two years earlier, he had published L'Onanisme, about the dangers of masturbation.

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