ADAMS, Daniel The Medical and Agricultural Register. Vol. I, No. 1 (-12). Boston: Manning & Loring, 1806
FIRST EDITION, FIRST YEAR OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST AMERICAN PERIODICALS, 8vo, 192 pp.
Original boards, soiled and somewhat worn, interior with browning - front flyleaf missing, First edition of one of the earliest American periodicals with largely medical content. It is the stated intent of this publication to diffuse, as widely as possible, the knowledge of the best means of preserving the health, and of promoting agriculture, of a growing and an extensive country. Apparently it was decided that other periodicals sufficiently provide readers with news, politics, theology, natural history, etc., while health and agriculture, subjects which, in one way or another, come home to every man's business and bosom, have been in a measure neglected. Each issue contains articles first on medicine, then on agriculture, plus other miscellaneous though related subjects. Examples include The treatment of angina maligna, or ulcerous sore throat (No. 4, April), the loss sustained by farmers in suffering their swine to run at large (No. 8, August), and recipes for cheap and excellent wine, and for curing hams (No. 10, October).The Medical and Agricultural Register was only published for two years, through 1807.It was designed for use of families; directions for the preservation of health, and management of the sick.
$US450
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