Dr. Graham is now preparing the largest and most elegant medico-electrical-aerial and magnetic apparatus in the world; and in order to superintend some part of the glass work, which was made at the famous glass-houses in Newcastle, he resided there this winter, about four months; during which time he had the pleasure of restoring to health many hundred persons who laboured under diseases which had baffled all other means that had been attempted for their cure, from among a very great number of cures the following are selected, and by permission are thus made public ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graham, James, 1745-1794 20198

Contributor:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, former owner.

Athenaeum of Philadelphia, former owner.

L'Air de Lamotte, Jean, annotator.

Duane, William, 1760-1835, former owner.

Dufief, N. G. 1776?-1834, bookseller.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health--Early works to 1800.

Health.

Healing--Early works to 1800.

Healing.

Medicine--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

[16] p. ; 8⁰.

Place of Publication:

[newcastle? : s.n., 1799]

Notes:

Anonymous. By James Graham.

Title from opening words of text.

Dated at end: Newcastle, Feb. 18.

Publication date from PHi.

Includes several poems "lately presented in public to D.G. declarative of the infinite superiority of his method of treating diseases."

Local Notes:

HSP in LCP.

Benjamin Franklin's copy.

Bound with Barbeau-Dubourg, Lettre, q.v.; item 7 in volume. Modern half sheep over contemporary boards. MS table of contents on flyleaf in Jean L'Air de Lamotte's hand; pencil number inside front cover: C71 N39; purchased from Dufief, 1801-03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (52); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.