J. A. Paris — A Treatise on Diet

London, Thomas & George Underwood, 1828. Cloth. A fascinating 19th century treatise on diet by distinguished physician and medical researcher John Ayrton Paris. The third, corrected and enlarged, edition of this work in a cloth library binding, with a binder's label to the front paste down. Bookplate of Birmingham Medical Institute to the first blank page. Very faint stamp to the title page. John Ayrton Paris (1785-1856) was a British physician and a medical researcher of distinction. He made one of the earliest observations of occupational causes of cancer when, in 1822, he recognised that the high rate of skin cancer among men working in copper-smelting in Cornwall and Wales was due to their exposure to arsenic fumes. He wrote a number of substantial medical books, including this one, which focuses on diet and digestion. A page of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In a cloth library binding. Externally smart, with some wear to the extremities and the joints. There is small loss to the head of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are clean but there is some offsetting throughout. Small loss to the first blank page. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .