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Means of preserving health, and preventing diseases : founded principally on an attention to air and climate, drink, food, sleep, exercise, clothing, passions of the mind, and retentions and excretions.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ricketson, Shadrach, 1766-1839, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume (viii, 298 pages)).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : [publisher not identified], 1806.
- Summary:
- With an appendix, containing observations on bathing, cleanliness, ventilation, and medical electricity; and on the abuse of medicine. Enriched with apposite extracts from the best authors. Designed not merely for physicians, but for the information of others. To which is annexed, a glossary of the technical terms contained in the work.
- Notes:
- Collection reference: 114315.D
- 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.
- The 'Means of preserving health' was the first manual of health and hygiene written by an American author.
- Description based on online resource (last viewed March 21, 2025).
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