[Rarebooks] FS: Ricketson on Health, Food, Abuse of Medicine, etc., NY: 1806, price greatly reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:  WAS $750    NOW $450 NET

RICKETSON, Shadrach. MEANS OF PRESERVING HEALTH, AND PREVENTING 
DISEASES: FOUNDED PRINCIPALLY ON AN ATTENTION TO AIR AND CLIMATE, DRINK, 
FOOD, SLEEP, EXERCISE, CLOTHING, PASSIONS OF THE MIND, AND RETENTIONS 
AND EXCRETIONS. 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. 
DESIGNED NOT MERELY FOR PHYSICIANS, BUT FOR THE INFORMATION OF OTHERS. 
TO WHICH IS ANNEXED, A GLOSSARY OF THE TECHNICAL TERMS CONTAINED IN THE 
WORK. New York: Collins, Perkins, & Co., 1806. First Edition. 
Contemporary full calf leather 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. (#011302) 
     $450.00

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