Author: BUCHAN, WILLIAM.
Title: Domestic Medicine; Or, A Treatise On the Prevention And Cure Of Diseases, By Regimen And Simple Medicines. With an Appendix containing a Dispensatory for the use of Private Practitioners.
Description: New and Enlarged Edition; 8vo; pp. xxiv, 534; 12 b/w illustrations, appendix, glossary, index; rebound in modern brown cloth with new endpapers, title page browned and insect damaged, flecking to first and last few pages, associated newspaper articles included, a good copy. London, Milner and Company, (c.1794). This book became immensely popular among households in England, Scotland, New England and the US colonies. In it Buchan argued against regular bathing, taking the position that human perspiration is a potent germ inhibitor. It was thought to be important to keep those healthy oils in your skin, thereby giving a person a 'healthy glow'.
Keywords: medicine medical treatments cures illness disease
Title: Domestic Medicine; Or, A Treatise On the Prevention And Cure Of Diseases, By Regimen And Simple Medicines. With an Appendix containing a Dispensatory for the use of Private Practitioners.
Description: New and Enlarged Edition; 8vo; pp. xxiv, 534; 12 b/w illustrations, appendix, glossary, index; rebound in modern brown cloth with new endpapers, title page browned and insect damaged, flecking to first and last few pages, associated newspaper articles included, a good copy. London, Milner and Company, (c.1794). This book became immensely popular among households in England, Scotland, New England and the US colonies. In it Buchan argued against regular bathing, taking the position that human perspiration is a potent germ inhibitor. It was thought to be important to keep those healthy oils in your skin, thereby giving a person a 'healthy glow'.
Keywords: medicine medical treatments cures illness disease
Price: AUD 150.00 = appr. US$ 103.78 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 97820
- Book number: 97820