Advice to the People in General, with Regard to Their Health: But particularly calculated for those, who are the most unlikely to be provided in time with the best Assistance, in acute Diseases, or upon any sudden inward or outward Accident. with A Table…

xxxii, [4], 620 pp. 8vo. Full leather, gilt double rule on boards, no titles or labels on spine. Garrison-Morton 1597 (referring to the French original): "A tract on medicine written for the lay public; it ran through many editions and was translated into all European languages. It has been called 'the greatest medical best-seller of the eighteenth century' (Singy, "The Popularization of Medicine in the Eighteenth Century: Writing, Reading, and Rewriting Samuel Auguste Tissot's Avis au peuple sur sa sante". Journal of Modern History, 82 (2010) 769 - 800). English translation in 1765."