- First five hundred p. (sl.) water/ dampstained in lower inner margin; contemp. owner's annots. on verso of final free endpaper and lower pastedown. Vellum w. sm. stains; remnants of ticket on frontcover.
= Norman Libr. 2081 (on the orig. French ed. (Lausanne, 1761)): "Tissot's treatise on popular medicine is a typical product of the health education movement that grew out of the didactic, humanitarian and selfimproving impulses of the Enlightenment. (...) [it] went through ten French editions in less than six years, was translated into every European language, and won for its author a medal and a pension"; Garrison/ Morton 1597; BMN I, p.389.