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Domestic medicine : or, The family physician : being an attempt to render the medical art more generally useful, by shewing people what is in their own power both with respect to the prevention and cure of diseases : chiefly calculated to recommend a proper attention to regimen and simple medicines / by William Buchan ; to which is added Dr. Cadogan's dissertation on the gout.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buchan, William, 1729-1805, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine, Popular--Early works to 1800.
- Medicine, Popular.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume (vii, 368, iv, 39 pages)).
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : printed by John Dunlap, for R. Aitken, 1772.
- Notes:
- Collection reference: 15529.Q
- Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Library Company of Philadelphia's catalogue, and 'An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform', compiled by Christopher Hoolihan.
- William Buchan studied medicine at Edinburgh, and later settled in Yorkshire where in 1759 he was appointed medical officer to the recently opened Foundling Hospital at Ackworth. Buchan was the first writer in English to combine in one book recipes for home treatment with general advice about diet, lifestyle, and how to live longer. This book was first published in Edinburgh in 1769 and in America in 1772, it was reprinted at least 142 times over a century, and adapted to changing times until "Buchan" became in effect a brand name.
- Description based on online resource (last viewed March 21, 2025).
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