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249 - ROWE (Edward). A HISTORY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF WATER and Its Influence on Health and Physical Beauty.
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ROWE (Edward). A HISTORY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF WATER and Its Influence on Health and Physical Beauty. Paris, Lugan, 1824. In-12 format, [4]-259 pages, paperback, printed blue cover, untrimmed. First French translation of this curious treatise on the benefits of water, featuring numerous anecdotes about its properties as a beverage and its curative effects on various diseases (madness, melancholy, gout, bladder stones, syphilis…). The work is supplemented by the opinions of several French, German, and Italian physicians. A few foxing spots; otherwise, a good copy as published.
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