[Rarebooks] FS: Buchan's DOMESTIC MEDICINE, First Vermont Edition, 1798

[Charles Agvent]

BUCHAN,  William.  DOMESTIC  MEDICINE:   OR,  A  TREATISE  ON  THE
PREVENTION  AND  CURE  OF DISEASES, BY REGIMEN AND  SIMPLE  MEDICINES.
WITH  AN  APPENDIX....  Fairhaven,  VT: James  Lyon  1798.  The  First
Vermont  Edition, published previously in Philadelphia and  elsewhere.
Octavo  bound  in full original calf with black leather  label;  xxiv,
476,  [19] pages. The most popular home medical book of the late  18th
and  19th  centuries,  stressing the importance of basic  hygiene  and
nutrition    in  helping  one  heal   himself.  Charming  1836   owner
inscription  on  front blank describing the presentation of  the  book
from  an  uncle  to a nephew "for his good attendence to  him  in  his
sickness."  Few  signatures  a little sprung;  moderate  staining  and
darkening,  heavy to a few pages. Rubbed, leather label partly scraped
away. Good, solid copy.                                        $300.00

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