Volume 1

An account of persons remarkable for their health and longevity, exhibiting their habits, practices and opinions. To which are added authentic cases of recovery from many severe and protracted maladies, with the means successfully employed; a definite plan for the removal of that peculiar affection of the throat to which clergymen, and other public speakers, are liable; and maxims of health for the gouty, paralytic and asthmatic / By a physician [i.e. T.J. Graham].

Date:
1829
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Credit: An account of persons remarkable for their health and longevity, exhibiting their habits, practices and opinions. To which are added authentic cases of recovery from many severe and protracted maladies, with the means successfully employed; a definite plan for the removal of that peculiar affection of the throat to which clergymen, and other public speakers, are liable; and maxims of health for the gouty, paralytic and asthmatic / By a physician [i.e. T.J. Graham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following Books have been lately published by SIMPKIN and MARSHALL, Stationers’ Court, London, and may be had of all Booksellers. 1. MODERN DOMESTIC MEDICINE; - Or a Popular Treatise, illustrating the Character, Symptoms, Causes, Distinction, and Correct Treatment of all Diseases incident to the Haman Frame; embracing all the Modern Improvements in Medicine, with the Opinions of the most distinguished Physicians. To which are]added, a Domestic Materia Medica, a Description of the Virtues, and Correct Manner of Using the Different Mineral Waters of lection of approved Prescriptions adapted to Domestic Use ; Ample Rules of Diet, and a Table of the Doses of Medicines. . The Whole forming a comprehensive Medical Guide for the Use of Clergymen, Heads of Families, and Invalids. By T. J. GRAHAM, M.D. &c. Testimonies in favour of the above Work. _. The arrangement of this work is of a very superior order, and peculiarly adapts it for the use of Families. All the best authorities (particularly those of modern days) are industriously consulted ; and for practical universal service, it is certainly very far above its ce- lebrated Prototype, (Dr. Buchan’s), We conscientiously recom- mend Dr. Graham’s Treatise to the Public, and feel much pleasure in the certainty that the author’s wish to render his work extensively useful, will be fully gratified.” Literary Chronicle, Oct. 7, 1826. ‘¢ We must refer the reader, who wishes to know more of this interesting subject, to the work itself. We have extracted enough to make good our promise, (to point out specifically its domestic uses); and we shall preserve the volume, as the advice of an in- _ valuable Friend, to which we can refer with unrestrained ease in _ the hour of need, without any doubt of being benefited by its. wis- dom.” Itierary Chronicle, Second Notice, Oct. 21, 1826. ‘* In our opinion, the ‘ Domestic Medicine’ of Dr. Graham, is very far superior to that of Dr. Buchan, even in the improved state of the latter. We believe an examination of the two works will fully jus- tify us in this preference. We think the work deserves, and will obtain success.” Oriental Herald, Nov. 1, 1826. A 2