A New Method of Treating Consumptions, Wherein All the Decays Incidental to Human Bodies, are Mechanically Accounted for; with Some Considerations, Touching the Difference Between Consumptions and Those Decays That Naturally Attend Old Age.

Octavo. xvi, 218 pages, [6], 160 pages, [4], index. Two parts in one volume. One of the most important books on the aging process in the eighteenth century. Instead of speaking of the inevitability of decline, there is the suggestion that the more pronounced effects can be ameliorated by a healthy diet. In the Oxford Dictionary of the History of Medicine, it notes that Robinson was already forming judgments based on the new scientific method, so rather than basing his opinion on Aristotle, he is using his own observations though he has not fully escaped elements of humeral physiology. Bound in modern gray cloth, read leather spine label gilt, endpapers renewed, internally fresh.