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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Means of preserving health, and preventing diseases: founded principally on an attention to air and climate, drink, food, sleep, exercise, clothing, passions of the mind, and retentions and excretions |
| Reference | 114315.D |
| Library | The Library Company of Philadelphia |
| Collection | McNeil |
| Date | 1806 |
| Author | Ricketson, Shadrach |
| Place of Creation | New York |
| Description | With an appendix, containing observations on bathing, cleanliness, ventilation, and medical electricity; and on the abuse of medicine. Enriched with apposite extracts from the best authors. Designed not merely for physicians, but for the information of others. To which is annexed, a glossary of the technical terms contained in the work. |
| Document Type | Printed Book |
| Theme(s) | Health and Hygiene |
| Keywords | prevention, hygiene, disease, air, temperature, food, diet, sleep, exercise, clothing, baths, cleansing, electricity, physician, alcohol, mercury, opium |
| Parts of the Body | digestive organs, urinary organs, head |
| Additional Information | The 'Means of preserving health' was the first manual of health and hygiene written by an American author. |
| 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. |
| Copyright | The Library Company of Philadelphia |