Advice to People in General with Respect to their Health.

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TISSOT, SAMUEL-AUGUST

Advice to People in General with Respect to their Health.

<<First edition in English.>> Two volumes. Translated from the French by James Kilpatrick. pp. 271, 318. Browned, opening title taped. Modern boards, 8vo.

Edinburgh: A. Donaldson 1766

Est: $300 - $500
PRICE REALIZED $40
Samuel Auguste André David Tissot (1728-97) was a notable 18th-century Swiss physician. This is his most famous work, the first translation into English of what was originally entitled: Avis au peuple sur sa santé (1761), arguably, the greatest medical text of the 18th century.