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Full: A Mechanical Account of the Non-Naturals: Being a Brief Explication of the Changes made in Humane Bodies, by Air, Diet, etc.
Published by Ralph Smith, 1718
HARDCOVER. Condition: Fair. 3rd Edition, Revised. 12mo hardcover bound in full brown leather; 196 pp. Five raised bands with gilt brown leather title label; gilt-tooled border to boards. Edge wear with1/4 inch chip to foot of spine. Binding starting but secure; text block tight and secure.Bleed-through from single line of contemporary manuscript marginalia on page 44 affecting multiple leaves; otherwise clean throughout. Severely toned and darkened throughout. Ex-medical library bookplate to front pastedown. Fair. KCMS. An influential 18th-century iatromathematical treatise by Jeremiah Wainwright. Provides a mechanical explication of the "Non-Naturals"the six external factors (air, diet, sleep, exercise, excretion, and passions) believed to govern health and disease. Wainwright argues for a rigorous mathematical approach to physiology, attempting to explain the physical effects of these factors on the human body through the laws of motion and mechanics.
