Advice with respect to health / extracted from Dr. Tissot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797.

Contributor:

Wesley, John, 1703-1791.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Avis au peuple sur sa santé. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Popular.

Health--Popular works.

Health.

Self-care, Health--Early works to 1800.

Self-care, Health.

Penn Provenance:

Shannon, Robert (autograph) (former owner) (inscription) (Smith copy)

Physical Description:

228 p. ; 18 cm.

Edition:

The 7th ed.

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Printed by Wilkinson and Courtney, 1809.

Notes:

Abridged by John Wesley from the English translation of: Avis au peuple sur sa santé.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Smith copy bound with: Wesley, John. Primitive physic, or, An easy and natural method of curing most diseases. Dublin : Printed by Wilkinson and Courtney, 1809.

Smith copy has paper slip with early ms. list ("Orange peel Colomba Gentian Cassia Snake root Cammomile Peruvian Bark Cinnamon anise Seed") pinned to front free endpaper;

Smith copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2018 from DeWolfe and Wood.

Smith copy has 2 early autographs of Robert Shannon of Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland, 1 partially effaced, on verso of front free endpaper; dated 19th-century ownership inscription ("R. Shannon's Tissot & Physick Apl. 24 1810") of the same person on verso of back free endpaper.

OCLC:

1034662136