Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 992

WILLIAM BUCHAN (1729-1805) Domestic medicine: or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. Printed for A. Strahan; T. Cadell; and J. Balfour, and W. Creech 1792 13th ed. xxxvi, 712 [36] pp. 20.3 cm.

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It is quite possible that Buchan may have had assistance from William Smellie (1740-1795) in the preparation of Domestic medicine. Robert Kerr (1755-1813)--physician, scientific writer, translator, and Smellie's biographer--believed that Smellie edited and partially rewrote Buchan's manuscript. Smellie was an Edinburgh printer who possessed extensive medical knowledge and was widely read in philosophy and the natural sciences. The first edition of the book bore Smellie's imprint.

Cited references: Cushing B826 (Edinburgh ed., 1769); Wellcome II, p. 261