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OBSERVACIONES SOBRE EL CLIMA DE LIMA, Y SUS INFLUENCIAS EN LOS SERES ORGANIZADOS, EN ESPECIAL EL HOMBR
by Unanue, Joseph Hipolit
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About This Item
Lima: Imprenta Real de los Huerfanos, 1806. [18],9,cxcviii,[2]pp. plus two folding leaves of letterpress. Small quarto. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt. Rubbed at extremities, boards warped. Text heavily wormed. Light dampstaining and tanning. Poor. The first edition of the first treatise on hygiene in Spanish. Professor Unanue was famous in his time, and through his books his prestige reached Europe. In this book the author, who today would be considered a physician-hygienist, was very interested in diet, climate, the races that lived together in Lima, the typical diseases of the place, food, the methods of curing climatic illnesses, etc. There are also various references to wine as a curative throughout the text. Unanue's importance continues to this day, evidenced by the number of times he is cited in Aristides A. Moll's history of medicine in South America, ÆSCULAPIUS IN LATIN AMERICA (1944). Of great interest for the history of medicine and hygiene. MEDINA, LIMA 2013. VARGAS UGARTE 3281. PALAU 344286. OCLC 24379083, 253067222.
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- William Reese Company
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- Title
- OBSERVACIONES SOBRE EL CLIMA DE LIMA, Y SUS INFLUENCIAS EN LOS SERES ORGANIZADOS, EN ESPECIAL EL HOMBR
- Author
- Unanue, Joseph Hipolit
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Imprenta Real de los Huerfanos
- Place of Publication
- Lima
- Date Published
- 1806
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
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