Formula of prescriptions, and various instructions, for the service and guidance of those who have applied, are applying, or shall apply, to the enemy to human diseases
Subtitle: to which is prefixed, a vindication, concerning the dietical [sic] abstinence, detecting the dangerous tendency of several articles forbidden as pernicious to the human body ... in which are included tobacco, salt and salted food, spirituous liquors, all sorts of spices, and coffee
By: By Sylvan, Enemy to the human diseases
Publisher: Printed for the author
Published: 1812
Place of publication: [Providence?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: Medicine; Diet; Popular Medicine; Patent medicines; Quacks and quackery
Notes: An otherwise blank leaf (p. [29-30] bears a "rose-colored stamp" (discolored) with legend: Enemy to human diseases. According to a title-page note, copies lacking this stamp are unauthorized.

"Written by a quack generally known as the "Rainwater doctor:" -- W. Cushing, Initials and pseudonyms.

"Sabine (63422) wrongly attributes to Octavius Plinth. The author is distinquished from Plinth in H.R. Stiles © hist. of the city of Brooklyn, v. 1, 1867, p. 393, n. 3.

By Sylvan, psued.

Shaw & Showmaker 29905, 26840.

Austin 1850.