Chambers, Thomas King. Restorative Medicine: An Harveian Annual Oration, delivered at the Royal College of Physicians, London, on June 21, 1871; with Two Sequels. Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1871. First Edition. [10938]
Burgundy publisher's cloth, 7 x 4 1/2 inches, small blotch on the front cover, tight. iv, 85 clean pp., 2 pp. publisher's catalogue. Very good. Hardcover.
In this presentation the author challenges his hearers to base medical progress upon real scientific knowledge gained from experience and observation, to not "throw the baby out with the bathwater," by rejecting older methods only because they are old. He briefly reviews the progress of medicine from the time of the ancient Greeks to his own day.
Thomas King Chambers (1817-1889), an Oxford-educated English physician; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. An expert in his day on the subject of dietetics, he lectured and wrote on the subject, promoting health through the public's better knowledge of diet and digestion.
