Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 847.5

JAMES SEDGWICK (1698-1764) A new treatise on liquors : wherein the use and abuse of wine, malt-drinks, water, &c. are particularly consider'd, in many diseases, constitutions, and ages, with the proper manner of using them, hot, or cold, either as physick, diet, or bath, containing plain and easy rules for the preservation of health, and the attainment of long life, the whole being a full determination of all that hath lately been publish'd on those subjects, tho' chiefly contrary to the opinions of Dr. Cheyne, Dr. Rouse, Dr. Short, Lommius, Vander Heyden, Dr. Hancocke, Mr. Smith, and others. Printed for Charles Rivington ... 1725 [8], xviii, [22], 407, [9] p. 20 cm.

An apothecary at Stratford-le-Bow, Sedgwick dedicated this treatise on alcohol abuse to the president of the College of Physicians.

Gift of Hans L. Ehrenhaft, M.D.