1788 Domestic Medicine for Poor Smallpox Cures Healing Scottish Homeopathy 5v

William Buchan was a Scottish physician known for his medical treatise ‘Domestic Medicine,’ a book which described and provided medical treatments and preventions for peasants. This book was one of the most popular medical texts in Europe in the 18th- and 19th-centuries. The popularity of this book was attributed to the fact that it was the first medical book designed for the poor. To this point, medical books were designed for teaching or not thorough enough to provide help. This book offers cures and preventative techniques for smallpox, importance of bloodletting, recommendations on hygiene, and, more controversial, that immorality directly caused poor health and illness!

According to ‘Heirs of Hippocrates’,

“Buchan gives simple and easily followed advice in this book and deals at considerable length with various matters that may affect the health, such as diet, ventilation, sleep, cleanliness, and infection. The greater part of the treatise is taken up with a description of the causes, management, and treatment of diseases, such as fevers, pneumonia, smallpox, whooping cough, and colic. His remarks are of lasting value and give valuable insight into the relationship between social conditions and disease in the 18th-century.”

This fourth French edition was published in 1788 and printed in five complete tomes.

Item number: #4780

Price: $550

BUCHAN, William

Médecine domestique, ou traité complet des moyens de se conserver en santé, de guérir & de prévenir les maladies, par le régime & les remedes simples : ouvrage utile aux personnes de tout état, & mis à la portée de tout le monde

A Paris : Chez Froullé, 1788.

Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages; 5 volumes

Vol. I – civ, 420

Included are various 18th century manuscript pages medicinal remedies

Vol. II – [4], xlviii, 560

Vol. III – [4], 608

Vol. IV – [4], 604

Vol. V – [4], xxxvi, 785 (i.e. 587), [1]

References: HoH 625; Cushing B 826; Wellcome II, 261; not in G&M

Language: French

Binding: Leather; tight & secure

Size: ~7.75in X 5in (20cm x 13cm)

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