[Rarebooks] FS: First American Text on Preventive Medicine

[Charles Agvent]

RICKETSON, Shadrach. MEANS OF PRESERVING HEALTH, AND PREVENTING 
DISEASES: FOUNDED PRINCIPALLY ON AN ATTENTION TO AIR AND CLIMATE, DRINK, 
FOOD... New York: Collins, Perkins, & Co., 1806. First Edition. "With an 
Appendix, containing observations on Bathing, Cleanliness, Ventilation, 
and Medical Electricity; and on the Abuse of Medicine. Enriched with 
apposite extracts from the best Authors. To which is added a Glossary." 
Contemporary full calf with maroon morocco spine label; duodecimo 
(4-1/4" x 6-3/4"); [ii], x, 298, [ii] pages, the final two pages 
consisting of ads for other medical books by the publisher. Shaw & 
Shoemaker 11289. Wilson G. Smillie, in his PUBLIC HEALTH, ITS PROMISE 
FOR THE FUTURE, calls this title "the first American text on preventive 
medicine that we have found. It was largely concerned with personal 
hygiene and particularly with diet." Includes a chapter on the use and 
misuse of opium. Occasional foxing to text, title page a little browned. 
Some rubbing to covers with small gouge to spine. Very Good. 		$750.00

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