Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health
Subtitle: 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 inward or outward accident. : With a table of the most cheap, yet effectual remedies, and the plainest directions for preparing them readily.
By: Translated from the French edition of Dr. Tissot's Avis au peuple, &c. Printed at Lyons; with all the notes in the first English edition, and a very few additional ones. By J. Kirkpatrick, M.D. ; To which is added, The art of preserving health: containing the most important rules recommended by physicians and philosophers for the preservation of health in the several periods and circumstances of life: together with the reasons on which these rules are founded. By J. Mackenzie, M.D. ; [Two lines from Proverbs] ; Volume I[-II]
Contributors: Kirkpatrick, J. ca. 1696-1770, tr.; Mackenzie, James, ca. 1680-1761.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 41772.
Publisher: Printed [by Mein and Fleeming]
Published: 1767
Place of publication: London [i.e., Boston]
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Medicine, Popular.; Hygiene.
Notes: A false imprint was used by Mein and Fleeming, probably on the supposition that foreign publications would sell more readily. Cf. Alden, J.E. "A note on Tissot's 'Advice to the people,' London, 1767." PBSA 34 (1940): 262-266.

Vol. 1: xxiv, [6], 265, [1] p.; v. 2: [6], 254 p.

Signatures: vol. 1, A-Bœ́ chi1,2,3 C-2Aœ́ 2B1 (2B1 verso blank); v. 2, [A]1,2,3 B-Yœ́ Z1.

"The history of health, and the art of preserving it ... By James Mackenzie, M.D. ..."--v. 2, p. [197]-254, with separate title page.

Bristol B2822.

Shipton & Mooney 41772.

Austin, R.B.  Early Amer. medical imprints, 1912.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 41772)