50
Adair’s medical cautions to invalids.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 39. no. 48, as above.
ADAIR,
James Makittrick.
Medical Cautions; chiefly for the Consideration of Invalids. Containing Essays on Fashionable Diseases. The dangerous Effects
of Hot and Crouded Rooms. An Enquiry into the Use of Medicine during a Course of Mineral Waters. On Quacks, Quack Medicines,
and Lady Doctors. And an Essay on Regimen, very much enlarged. The
Second Edition, To which are now added, Appendix I. Containing farther Animadversions on a celebrated Quack Medicine, and Remarks
on the Medical Powers and Use of the Dulcified Acids. Appendix II. An Essay on Therapeutics. Published for the Benefit of
The General Hospital at Bath. By James Makittrick Adair, M.D. . . .
Bath: Printed by
R. Cruttwell; and sold by
C. Dilly,
London, and by all the booksellers in
Bath,
1787.
R128.7 .A22
8vo. 284 leaves.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue I, i, 107.
Not in the
Bibliotheca Osleriana.
The
Medical Cautions, and
A Philosophical and Medical Sketch
by the same author (see the next entry) were purchased by Jefferson from
Stockdale on July 1, 1787.
James Makittrick Adair (originally James Makittrick), 1728-1802, Scottish medical writer, practised for a time in Antigua and obtained his M.D.
degree for a thesis on yellow fever. In his errata lists at the end of the Preface of this book the author refers to it as
Volume II of
A Philosophical and Medical Sketch
(q.v.) though the first edition of the
Medical Cautions was published in the previous year, 1786. This second edition is dedicated to the
Right Honourable the President and Governors of the General Hospital at Bath, dated from that city, April 16, 1787. The
Celebrated Quack Medicine referred to in Appendix I is
Mr. Tickell’s Aethereal Spirit.
Dr. Adair visited Virginia in 1793, and was introduced to Jefferson by a letter from Benjamin Vaughan, written from London on June 10 of that year.
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Adair’s natural history of the body & mind.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 39. no. 49, as above.
ADAIR,
James Makittrick.
A Philosophical and Medical Sketch of the Natural History of the Human Body and Mind. To which is subjoined, an Essay on the
Difficulties of attaining Medical Knowledge, intended for the Information and Amusement of those who are, or are not, of the
Medical Profession. Published for the Benefit of the General Hospital at Bath. By James Makittrick Adair, M.D. . . .
Bath: Printed by
R. Cruttwell, and sold by
C. Dilly,
London . . .
1787.
R708 .A21
First Edition. 8vo. 171 leaves; on the last leaf is the advertisement, dated Bath, Jan. 6, 1787, of the
Medical Cautions
,
The Second Edition, to be published in a few days.
Not in Osler.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue I, i, 107.
Purchased from
Stockdale in July 1787, price
4/-.
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Peale on the means of preserving health.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 41. no. 50, as above.
PEALE,
Charles Willson.
An Epistle to a Friend, on the Means of preserving Health, promoting Happiness; and prolonging the Life of Man to its natural
Period . . . By Charles W.
