Author: John Arbuthnot Title: An Essay Concerning the Nature of Ailments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. In Which the Different Effects, Advantages, and Disadvantages of Animal and Vegetable Diet, Are Explain&Apos;D
Description: London, J. Tonson, 1732. Cloth. A second edition of this popular medical work by John Arbuthnot, an account of medicines and treatments in the eighteenth century, alongside a treatise on diet. A second edition of this work.This second edition was notable for its addition of a section containing advice on diet, which hadn't been included in the first edition of the previous year.ESTC citation number T140154.A popular work by John Arbuthnot on medicine, guiding the reader on the detection and treatment of various common and uncommon ailments of the early eighteenth century.Written in six chapters, Arbuthnot discusses the circulation of the chyle with the blood, an analysis of vegetable and animal substances, the fluids and solids of a human body, and more.Including an explanation of some chemical terms used in the work. Errata slip pasted to the tail of page 430.Collated, complete.By John Arbuthnot, a physician, satirist, and polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics and for being a member of the Scriblerus Club."Practical Rules of Diet" has a divisional title and its own preface and contents inserted after page 239, but a continuous pagination and register. Rebound in a cloth binding by the Birmingham Medical Institute. Externally, boards are detached but present. Light discolouration and marks to the boards and spine. A small amount of loss to the head of the spine. Bookseller's label to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean with some spots. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .
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Price: GBP 390.00 = appr. US$ 556.91 Seller: Rooke Books
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