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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Letters to the people on health and happiness |
| Reference | 11546.D |
| Library | The Library Company of Philadelphia |
| Collection | Rush |
| Date | 1855 |
| Author | Beecher, Catharine Esther |
| Publisher / Printer / Lithographer | Harper & brothers |
| Place of Creation | New York |
| Description | First edition. |
| Document Type | Printed Book |
| Theme(s) | Health and Hygiene |
| Keywords | nourishment, animals, temperature, indigestion, nerves, medicine, family, air, exercise, food, water, cure, purification |
| Parts of the Body | head, bone, muscles, lungs, digestive organs, skin, nervous system |
| Additional Information | In the first of her twenty-five letters Beecher expresses anxieties reflective of a nation in the midst of unpredictable economic, social and religious change. To remedy the national decline is the purpose of Beecher's Letters, which is divided into five parts: Organs of the human body, laws of health, abuses of the bodily organs, evils resulting from such abuses and remedies for these evils. |
| Note | Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Library Company of Philadelphia’s catalogue, and 'An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform', compiled by Christopher Hoolihan. |
| Visual Content | View thumbnails |
| Copyright | The Library Company of Philadelphia |