The history of health and the art of preserving it, or, An account of all that has been recommended by physicians and philosophers towards the preservation of health, from the most remote antiquity to this time
Subtitle: to which is subjoined, a succinct review of the principal rules relating to this subject, together with the reasons on which these rules are founded
By: by James Mackenzie, M.D., physician lately at Worcester and fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh
Contributors: Gordon, W. (William), -approximately 1794, printer, bookseller; Samuel Johnson and William Samuel Johnson Libraries (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Edition: The third edition, to which is added, a short and clear account of the commencement, progress, utility, and proper management of inoculating the small pox, as a valuable branch of the prophylaxis.
Publisher: Printed for William Gordon, bookseller in the Parliament Close
Published: 1760
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
Subjects: Hygiene; Early works to 1800; Health; Smallpox; Vaccination; Medicine
Other titles: History of health and the art of preserving it; Account of all that has been recommended by physicians and philosophers towards the preservation of health, from the most remote antiquity to this time
Notes: Signatures: [a]⁴ b² A-3M⁴.

English short title catalogue, T58747

A digital reproduction of the copy of this title found at the British Library is available from Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO).

Gift; Johnson family; 1914.