Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health: but particularly calculated for those, who are the most unlikely to be provided in time with the best assistance, in acute diseases, or upon any 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 the notes in the first English edition, and a very few additional ones. By J. Kirkpatrick, M.D. To which is added, The art o preserving health: containing the most important rules recommended by physicians and philosophers for the preservation of health in the several periods and circumstances of life: together with the reasons on which these rules are founded. By J. Mackenzie, M.D. [Two lines from Proverbs] Volume I[-II].

All titles

• Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health: but particularly calculated for those, who are the most unlikely to be provided in time with the best assistance, in acute diseases, or upon any 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 the notes in the first English edition, and a very few additional ones. By J. Kirkpatrick, M.D. To which is added, The art o preserving health: containing the most important rules recommended by physicians and philosophers for the preservation of health in the several periods and circumstances of life: together with the reasons on which these rules are founded. By J. Mackenzie, M.D. [Two lines from Proverbs] Volume I[-II].
• Avis au peuple. English

People / Organizations

• S. A. D Tissot (Author)

Imprint

London [i.e., Boston]: Printed [by Mein and Fleeming], in the year MDCCLXVII. [1767]

Publication year

1767-1767

ESTC No.

W9079

Grub Street ID

358221

Description

2v. ; 12⁰

Note

A false imprint was used by Mein and Fleeming, probably on the supposition that foreign publications would sell more readily. Cf. Alden, J.E. "A note on Tissot's 'Advice to the people,' London, 1767." PBSA 34 (1940): 262-266.

Vol. 1: xxiv, [6], 265, [1] p.; v. 2: [6], 254 p.

"The history of health, and the art of preserving it .. By James Mackenzie, M.D. .."--v. 2, p. [197]-254, with separate title page.

Uncontrolled note

Signatures: vol. 1, A-B? chi1,2,3 C-2A? 2B1 (2B1 verso blank); v. 2, [A]1,2,3 B-Y? Z1