A treatise on the dissolvents of stone; and on curing the stone and gout by aliment. Shewing, by reason supported with experiments, and cases, the probability of dissolving the stone either in the kidneys, or bladder; and of preventing the returns of the gout by suitable aliment, with proper rules of diet. Intermixed with observations, which shew how persons of different constitutions, and also of different habits of body, whether too lean, or too fat, should regulate themselves, and their diet for the preservation of their health. To which are added, directions of diet proper for persons afflicted with colds, fevers, quinseys, coughs, asthma's, cholicks and pains of the stomach, costiveness, nervous diseases, cachexies, dropsies, tumours, or scurvey. The whole form'd for usefulness in families. By Theophilus Lobb, M.D. and Fellow of the Royal Society of London.
Dr Theophilus Lobb (1678-1763)
Category
Books
Date
1739
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3008015
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxii, [2], 450, [22] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 5758. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Former shelfmark in nineteenth-century hand in pencil on second front fly-leaf: "7:f:29". Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; gilt double fillet border; blind roll-tooled frame with blind cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine, with gilt title label. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Dr Theophilus Lobb (1678-1763)