An essay concerning the nature of aliments : and the choice of them, according to the different constitutions of human bodies. In which the different effects, advantages and disadvantages of animal and vegetable diet, are explain'd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food--Early works to 1800.

Food.

Diet--Early works to 1800.

Diet.

Penn Provenance:

Finney, John (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Finney, Robert (autograph) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

French, David (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages, 436 pages ; 21 cm (8vo)

Edition:

The third edition. To which are added, practical rules of diet in the various constitutions and diseases of human bodies.

Fingerprint:

rt;I d.67 sel, liha (3) 1735 (R)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for J. Tonson ..., MDCCXXXV. [1735]

Notes:

Signatures: A⁸ a⁴ B-2E⁸ 2F².

"Practical rules of diet in the various constitutions and diseases of human bodies" has a separate titlepage on p. [241]; the imprint reads: "printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1736"; pagination and register are continuous.

Head- and tail-pieces; initials.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. inscription on front endpaper: "J[oh]n Finney; to his son Robert Finney; wishesth Health. New Castle, January 1754."

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of David French on t.p. and p. 1; p. [8] in the beginning is inscribed "Rob[er]t Finney, 1774".

Cited in:

ESTC, T132545

OCLC:

3675530