Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 990

JOHN MOORE (1729-1802) Medical sketches. Printed by Carter and Wilkinson 1794 1st American ed. vi [2] 271 pp. 20.6 cm.

Moore, a successful Glasgow physician and surgeon, is perhaps better known for his enormously successful book, A view of society and manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany (1779), which grew out of his experiences in western Europe as physician and traveling companion to Douglas, eighth Duke of Hamilton (1756-1799). Moore originally prepared this work in manuscript to provide medical advice to a relative serving with the British forces in Virginia. He later improved the manuscript and first published it in England in 1786. In the first part of this two-part book, Moore discusses the basic physiological functions of the body and gives his views on the practice of medicine. The second part consists of a detailed discussion of the etiology, diagnosis, and therapy of various fevers common at that time.

Cited references: Austin 1330

Gift of Robert N. Larimer, M.D