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A new, plain, and rational treatise on the true nature and uses of the Bath waters: shewing the cases and constitutions in which these waters are really proper to be used, and the best Methods of using them, and likewise the Cases in which they are hurtful and very dangerous;-and demonstrating the great Errors in which Mankind have hitherto been under, in regard to bathing in, pumping with, and drinking these wonderful and powerful Waters;-And also as to their Regimen of Food, Drink, Airing, Exercising, &c. : To which are added, several very remarkable cures performed by Doctor Graham, under the immediate ocular Inspection, and attested by th[e] Hand-Writing of several of the principal Nobility of Europe and some great cures performed at Bath./ By James Graham, M.D. Of Edinburgh, but now at Bath.
A new, plain, and rational treatise on the true nature and uses of the Bath waters: shewing the cases and constitutions in which these waters are really proper to be used, and the best Methods of using them, and likewise the Cases in which they are hurtful and very dangerous;-and demonstrating the great Errors in which Mankind have hitherto been under, in regard to bathing in, pumping with, and drinking these wonderful and powerful Waters;-And also as to their Regimen of Food, Drink, Airing, Exercising, &c. : To which are added, several very remarkable cures performed by Doctor Graham, under the immediate ocular Inspection, and attested by th[e] Hand-Writing of several of the principal Nobility of Europe and some great cures performed at Bath./ By James Graham, M.D. Of Edinburgh, but now at Bath.
Dewey Classmark
613.12
615.79
Local Shelfmark
B 615.79 GRA
Personal Author
Graham, James, 1745-1794.
Publication
Bath : printed by R. Cruttwell, and sold by all the booksellers; and by Dr. Graham’s servant, at his Apartments, No. 10, New Bridge-Street, MDCCLXXXIX. [1789][1790]
Physical Description
[4],42,[1],42-48p. ; 21cm (8⁰)
Note
With half title.
Contents
This re-issue is missing the final leaf of original text (pp 43, [1]) but with additional pages bound in: [first un-numbered], then 42-48 [page numbers in square brackets], which are testimonies from Dr Graham's patients, some dated 1790.
Language Note
English.
Local Copy Note
BNGH copy/custodial history: Guildhall Library bookplate 'presented by the Rev. Reginald Hunt, M.A. from the library of the late Mr. Ezra Hunt.' (c. 1897). Accession number 2366
BNGH copy/additional material: Pasted on endpapers are Bath Chronicle and Bath journal newsclippings from 1792 about mud-bathing.
BNGH has a copy of the original edition, with the missing last page of original text: Item No: 1105394219. This original printing is not on ESTC.
Copy Information
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A new, plain, and rational treatise on the true nature and uses of the Bath waters: shewing the cases and constitutions in which these waters are really proper to be used, and the best Methods of using them, and likewise the Cases in which they are hurtful and very dangerous;-and demonstrating the great Errors in which Mankind have hitherto been under, in regard to bathing in, pumping with, and drinking these wonderful and powerful Waters;-And also as to their Regimen of Food, Drink, Airing, Exercising, &c. :
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To which are added, several very remarkable cures performed by Doctor Graham, under the immediate ocular Inspection, and attested by th[e] Hand-Writing of several of the principal Nobility of Europe and some great cures performed at Bath./
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By James Graham, M.D. Of Edinburgh, but now at Bath.
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Bath :
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printed by R. Cruttwell, and sold by all the booksellers; and by Dr. Graham’s servant, at his Apartments, No. 10, New Bridge-Street, MDCCLXXXIX. [1789][1790]
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[4],42,[1],42-48p. ; 21cm (8⁰)
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With half title.
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This re-issue is missing the final leaf of original text (pp 43, [1]) but with additional pages bound in: [first un-numbered], then 42-48 [page numbers in square brackets], which are testimonies from Dr Graham's patients, some dated 1790.
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English.
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BNGH copy/custodial history: Guildhall Library bookplate 'presented by the Rev. Reginald Hunt, M.A. from the library of the late Mr. Ezra Hunt.' (c. 1897). Accession number 2366
590##
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BNGH copy/additional material: Pasted on endpapers are Bath Chronicle and Bath journal newsclippings from 1792 about mud-bathing.
590##
$a
BNGH has a copy of the original edition, with the missing last page of original text: Item No: 1105394219. This original printing is not on ESTC.
