Home

  • Order to parcel locker

    Order to parcel locker

  • easy pay

    easy pay
  • Reduced price
The Works, Literary, Moral, and Medical, of Thomas Percival, M.D. 4 Volume Set: To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of his Life and W

The Works, Literary, Moral, and Medical, of Thomas Percival, M.D. 4 Volume Set: To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of his Life and W

9781108067379
800.10 zł
720.09 zł Save 80.01 zł Tax included
Lowest price within 30 days before promotion: 720.09 zł
Quantity
Available in 4-6 weeks

  Delivery policy

Choose Paczkomat Inpost, Orlen Paczka, DPD or Poczta Polska. Click for more details

  Security policy

Pay with a quick bank transfer, payment card or cash on delivery. Click for more details

  Return policy

If you are a consumer, you can return the goods within 14 days. Click for more details

Description
A physician and medical reformer enthused by the scientific and cultural progress of the Enlightenment as it took hold in Britain, Thomas Percival (1740-1804) wrote on many topics, including public health and demography. His influential publication on medical ethics is considered the first modern formulation. In 1807, his son Edward published this four-volume collection of his fathers diverse work. Some of the items here had never been published before, including a selection of Percivals private correspondence and a biographical account written by Edward. Volume 1 contains this biography and the full text of Percivals popular self-improvement book, A Fathers Instructions. Volume 2 contains essays on moral and literary subjects. Also included is the text of Percivals Medical Ethics (1803). Volume 3 contains the first two parts of Essays Medical and Experimental, the revised edition of which has been reissued separately in this series in one volume. Volume 4 contains the third and fourth parts, which were completed following the revised edition.
Product Details
Cambridge University Press
65778
9781108067379
9781108067379

Data sheet

Publication date
2013
Issue number
1
Pages count
2270
Weight (g)
2850
  • Volume 1:: Advertisement; Dedication; Biographical memoirs; A Fathers Instructions. Volume 2:: Dedication; Preface; A Socratic discourse on truth; Miscellaneous observations on the influence of habit and association; On inconsistency of expectation in literary pursuits; On the advantages of a taste for the general beauties of nature, and of art; Miscellaneous observations on the alliance of natural history, and philosophy, with poetry; On the intellectual and moral conduct of experimental pursuits; A tribute to the memory of Charles de Polier; General appendix to the foregoing dissertations; An enquiry into the principles and limits of taxation; Appendix; Biographical memoirs of the late Thomas Butterworth Bayley; Dissertatio medica inauguralis de frigore; Medical Ethics. Volume 3:: Advertisement; Part I:: Preface; The empiric, or man of experience; The dogmatic, or rationalist; Experiments and observations on astringents and bitters; On the uses and operation of blisters; An inquiry into the resemblance between chyle and milk; Experiments and observations on water, particularly the hard pump water of Manchester; On the disadvantages of inoculating children in early infancy; On the efficacy of external applications in the angina maligna, or ulcerous sore throat; Part II:: Preface; Observations and experiments on the Columbo root; On the preparation, culture, and use of the orchis root; Experiments and observations on the waters of Buxton and Matlock; Observations on the medicinal uses of fixed air; On the antiseptic and sweetening powers, and on the varieties of factitious air; On the noxious vapours of charcoal; On the atrabilis; On the septic quality of sea salt; On coffee; Select histories of diseases with remarks. Volume 4:: Part III:: Preface; Observations on the state of population in Manchester and other adjacent pages; On the small-pox and measles; On the different quantities of rain, which fall at different heights over the same spot of ground; On the solution of human calculi by fixed air; On the nature and composition of urinary calculi; On the effects of foxed air on the colours and vegetation of plants; On the action of different manures; On different absorbents; On the internal regulation of hospitals; Miscellaneous observations, cases and inquiries; Part IV:: Preface; On a new and cheap method of preparing pot-ash; On the fatal effects of pickles impregnated with copper; Speculations on the perceptive power of vegetables; Facts and queries relative to attraction and repulsion; Narrative of the sufferings of a collier; A physical inquiry into the powers and operations of medicines; On the solvent powers of camphor; Medical cautions and remarks; On the medicinal uses of cod liver oil; On the nature, cause, and cure of the rabies canina; Miscellaneous facts and observations; Miscellaneous practical observations; An account of an earthquake; On the silk cotton of Sumatra; On the acid of tar; On the construction and polity of prisons; Remarks relative to the improvement of the Manchester Infirmary; Index.
Comments (0)
Viewed products

  • Frequently purchased together

    No products available