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Chapter 6: Medical Books printed for E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry, London.
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The essay examines ailments common to people who lead sedentary, literary lives, attributing many complaints—digestive trouble, nervous affections, diminished vigour, and hypochondriacal symptoms—to inactivity, poor posture, and intemperate habits. It investigates causes in bodily temperament and environment, draws on classical medical authorities, and distinguishes various symptoms and complications. Substantial attention is given to practical prevention and cure through regulated diet and sleep, appropriate exercise, access to fresh air, temperate habits, and workplace adjustments, alongside guidance for therapeutic measures when necessary, aiming to mitigate the health risks of prolonged study.

Medical Books printed for E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry, London.

I. Experimental Essays on the following Subjects: 1. On the External Application of Antiseptics in Putrid Diseases. 2. On the Doses and Effects of Medicines. 3. On Diuretics and Sudorifics. By William Alexander, Surgeon in Edinburgh. Price 3s. 6d. in Boards.

II. An Essay on Fevers; more particularly those of the Common, Continued, and Inflammatory Kinds: Wherein a new and successful Method is proposed for removing them speedily. To which is added, An Essay on the Crises of those Disorders. By Lionel Chalmers, M. D. of Charles-Town. Price 2s. sewed.

III. An Answer to the Observations of Mr. Geach, and to the Cursory Remarks of Mr. Alcock, on Dr. Baker’s Essay on the Endemial Colic of Devonshire. In a Letter from Dr. Saunders to Dr. Baker. Price 1s.

IV. A new and easy Method of giving Mercury to those affected with the Venereal Disease. To which is annexed a new Theory of the Action of this Metal on the salivary Glands. Translated from the Latin of Joseph James Plenck, Professor of Surgery and Midwifry at Vienna. The Second Edition. To which is prefixed, a Table, exhibiting, at one View, all the Preparations of Mercury, reduced under proper Heads. With an Appendix of Remarks on Mr. Plenck; together with some Experiments and Observations, which ascertain, with more Accuracy, a steady and uniform Method of giving his Medicine; and a short and easy Method of preparing the Mercurius Calcinatus. By William Saunders, M. D. Price 2s. sewed.