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A new and curious treatise of the nature and effects of simple earth, water, and air, when applied to the human body how to live for many weeks, months, or years, without eating any thing whatever: With The Extraordinary Histories Of Many Persons, Male and Female, who have so subsisted. To which is added, an appendix, Containing Pathetic Remonstrances And Advices To Young Persons, And To Old Men, Against the Abuse of Certain debilitating and degrading Pleasures. By James Graham, M. D. Formerly sole Institutor, Proprietor, and Director of the Temple of Health in the Adelphi, and in Pall-Mall, London.

Title
A new and curious treatise of the nature and effects of simple earth, water, and air, when applied to the human body [electronic resource] : how to live for many weeks, months, or years, without eating any thing whatever: With The Extraordinary Histories Of Many Persons, Male and Female, who have so subsisted. To which is added, an appendix, Containing Pathetic Remonstrances And Advices To Young Persons, And To Old Men, Against the Abuse of Certain debilitating and degrading Pleasures. By James Graham, M. D. Formerly sole Institutor, Proprietor, and Director of the Temple of Health in the Adelphi, and in Pall-Mall, London.
Author
Graham, James, 1745-1794.
Publication
London : printed for the author, and sold by Messrs. Richardson, at the Royal Exchange, and Hookham, in Bond Street, 1793.

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Description
[2],29,[1]p.; 8⁰.
Subject
  • Fasting > Early works to 1800
  • Hydrotherapy > Early works to 1800
  • Baths, Moor and mud > Early works to 1800
Note
  • Reproduction of original from British Library.
Indexed In (note)
  • English Short Title Catalog
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
OCLC
  • 642335256
  • ECCO1-T122809
Author
Graham, James, 1745-1794.
Title
A new and curious treatise of the nature and effects of simple earth, water, and air, when applied to the human body [electronic resource] : how to live for many weeks, months, or years, without eating any thing whatever: With The Extraordinary Histories Of Many Persons, Male and Female, who have so subsisted. To which is added, an appendix, Containing Pathetic Remonstrances And Advices To Young Persons, And To Old Men, Against the Abuse of Certain debilitating and degrading Pleasures. By James Graham, M. D. Formerly sole Institutor, Proprietor, and Director of the Temple of Health in the Adelphi, and in Pall-Mall, London.
Imprint
London : printed for the author, and sold by Messrs. Richardson, at the Royal Exchange, and Hookham, in Bond Street, 1793.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Indexed In:
English Short Title Catalog, T122809.
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Full text online available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Place of Publication
Great Britain England London.
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