‎BUCHAN (G.)‎
‎Médecine domestique ou traité complet des moyens de se conserver en santé et de guérir les maladies par le régime et les remèdes simples. Traduit de l'anglais par J.D. Duplanil -- 5 VOLUMES (complete set)‎

‎P., Moutardier, 1802; 5 VOLUMES in 8 reliés en demi-basane, dos ornés de fers dorés (reliures de l'époque), (étiquettes de tomaison frottées, légères mouillures dans las partie inférieure des derniers feuillets aux tomes 1 et 3), T.1 : 1 portrait, 158pp., 328pp., T.2 : 16pp., 606pp., T.3 : (2), 640pp., T.4 : (2), 671pp., T.5 : 40pp., 612pp., (2 - errata)‎

Reference : 957

‎Cinquième édition REVUE et CONSIDERABLEMENT AUGMENTEE spécialement d'UN ARTICLE SUR LA VACCINE, de la NOUVELLE NOMENCLATURE CHIMIQUE et de LA DENOMINATION DES NOUVEAUX POIDS ET MESURES ---- "BUCHAN, a native of Scotland, practiced in Yorkshire for a time and later taught at Edinburgh where he had received his medical degree in 1761... Buchan first published Domestic medicine at Edinburgh in 1769. It had an enormous circulation... He gives simple and easily followed advice in this book and deals at considerable lenght with various matters that may affect the health, such as diet, ventilation, sleep, cleanliness, and infection. The greater part of the treatise is taken up with a description of the causes, management and treatment of diseases, such as fevers, pneumonia, smallpox, whooping cough and colic. His remarks are of lasting value and give valuable insight into the relationship between social conditions and disease in the eighteenth century... Domestic medicine was translated into all the principal european languages and was even more popular on the Continent and in the United States than in Scotland...". (Heirs of Hippocrates N° 991 & 993)**957/D5DE‎