Bidspirit auction | TISSOT, SAMUEL-AUGUST

TISSOT, SAMUEL-AUGUST - Advice to People in General with Respect to their Health. First edition in English. Two volumes. Translated from the French by James Kilpatrick. pp. 271, 318. Browned, opening title taped. Modern boards, 8vo. Edinburgh: A. Donaldson 1766 Samuel Auguste André David Tissot (1728-97) was a notable 18th-century Swiss physician. This is his most famous work, the first translation into English of what was originally entitled: Avis au peuple sur sa santé (1761), arguably, the greatest medical text of the 18th century.