DOMESTIC MEDICINE ~1774~ PREVENTION & CURE DISEASES Dispensatory BUCHAN

OR, A

ON THE

OF

BY

REGIMEN and SIMPLE MEDICINES

WTH

An APPENDIX containing a DISPENSATORY

for the Use of Private Practitioners

BY

The THIRD EDITION with considerable Additions

LONDON

Printed for W. STRAHAN, T. CADELL in the Strand

and J. BALFOUR and W. CREED at Edinburgh

Bound in full leather with five raised bands, and black and gilt title label to spine. It measures approx 22cm x 13.8cm x 5cm. The spine is creased and cracking and is chipped/nicked to top and bottom of spine with loss. Headbands broken. The rear board is cracking to spine edge and the front board is cracking to top compartment of spine. Leather is marked, scuffed and scratched (see photos). Corners touch chipped. Internally more recent endpapers to front and rear (chipped to inner edges). The first and last four or so leaves are rather crudely restuck to inner edges, with some chips. The title page is torn (with crude repair to rear), and has an inscription (Anne Morris 1797). The dedication leaf has further inscription (Robert Morris, Rector) and following couple of leaves have ink words and some smudges. Cracking and straining in places. Thumbed and grubby with scattered foxing Some scattered stained patches and marks. Creases and outer page edges bumped with some nicks in places and occasional tears. Occasional ink annotations. Worn but readable condition.

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"William Buchan (1729–1805) was a Scottish physician and author. He is best known for his work Domestic Medicine: or, a Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines, which provided laypeople with detailed descriptions of the causes and prevention of diseases. Buchan's goal was one of "laying medicine more open to mankind." It was one of the most popular medical texts in Europe and even in the European colonies in the Americas and was translated into almost every major European language."