Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health : but particularly calculated for those, who are the most unlikely to be provided in time with the best assistance, in acute diseases, or upon any inward or outward accident. : With a table of the most cheap, yet effectual remedies, and the plainest directions for preparing them readily. / Translated from the French edition of Dr. Tissot's Avis au peuple, &c. Printed at Lyons; with all the notes in the first English edition, and a very few additional ones. By J. Kirkpatrick, M.D. ; To which is added, The art of preserving health: containing the most important rules recommended by physicians and philosophers for the preservation of health in the several periods and circumstances of life: together with the reasons on which these rules are founded. By J. Mackenzie, M.D. ; [Two lines from Proverbs] ; Volume I[-II].

Author/creator Tissot, S. A. D.
Other author Kirkpatrick, J. (James), approximately 1696-1770, translator.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon [i.e., Boston] : Printed [by Mein and Fleeming], In the year MDCCLXVII. [1767]
Description2 volumes ; 18 cm (12mo)
Supplemental ContentEvans Digital Edition
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SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 41772. ^A478749
General noteA false imprint was used by Mein and Fleeming, probably on the supposition that foreign publications would sell more readily. Cf. Alden, J.E. "A note on Tissot's 'Advice to the people,' London, 1767." PBSA 34 (1940): 262-266.
General noteVol. 1: xxiv, [6], 265, [1] p.; v. 2: [6], 254 p.
General note"The history of health, and the art of preserving it ... By James Mackenzie, M.D. ..."--v. 2, p. [197]-254, with separate title page.
References Bristol B2822
References Shipton & Mooney 41772
References Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1912
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 41772).

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