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BUCHAN, William.
Domestic Medicine: Or, a Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines.

With An Appendix, containing a Dispensatory for the Use of Private Practitioners.

Description:
pp. xxxvi, 712, (xxxvi) Index. Contemporary calf rebacked, label now faded, top corner of the rear board worn with slight loss, four leaves with a small brown mark in the top margin,else a very good copy.

*A classic work in medicine for the masses and with an early reference to golf - 'Golff (sic) is a diversion very common in North Britain. It is well calculated for exercising the body, and may always be taken in such moderation, as neither to over-heat nor fatigue. It has greatly the preference over cricket, tennis, or any of those games which cannot be played without violence.'

For A. Strahan; T. Cadell, a.o. London.

Date Published: 1792. Thirteenth edition.

Stock No. 62411

Price: £120.00

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