The whole of Aristotle's compleat master-piece
in three parts : displaying the secrets of nature in the generation of man : regularly digested into chapters and sections, rendering it far more easy than any yet extant : to which is added A treasure of health, or, The family physician : being choice and approved remedies for all the several distempers incident to human bodies, and containing many new recipes, not inserted in any other edition of this book
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- 18th century
- Language: English
- Content type: Primary source
[2], vi, 148 pages, [1] leaf of plates : 16 cm Actually printed and published in Newcastle upon Tyne by Thomas Saint. Saint's woodblocks, including ones used in this edition, were sent after his death to Wilson and Spence of York, who used them in later editions. Cf. Thomas Bewick, the complete illustrative work, by Nigel Tattersfield, 2011 Contains wood engravings by Thomas Bewick. Cf. Hugo Arrangement differs from the twenty-third edition, part 4 (pages [107]-132) being a continuation of part 3 rather than an expansion of the text "The family physician" (pages [133]-148) is attributed to Hippocrates in the general preface Not in fact by Aristotle; the attribution is traditional Signatures: [A]⁴ B-N⁶ O²; L3 missigned L4, N3 missigned A3
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in three parts : displaying the secrets of nature in the generation of man : regularly digested into chapters and sections, rendering it far more easy than any yet extant : to which is added A treasure of health, or, The family physician : being choice and approved remedies for all the several distempers incident to human bodies, and containing many new recipes, not inserted in any other edition of this book Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan | 1780-01-01T00:00:00Z | London : [publisher not identified] | English | — | Public digitized item |
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