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: 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 Sylvan, Enemy to the human diseases.

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1812
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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: 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 Sylvan, Enemy to the human diseases. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[Providence?] : Printed for the author, 1812.

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139 pages, 140 unnumbered pages ; (8vo)

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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 Á hist. of the city of Brooklyn, v. 1, 1867, p. 393, n. 3
By Sylvan, psued

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Shaw & Showmaker 29905, 26840
Austin 1850

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