Description
The first American edition of The Effects of the Principal Arts, Trades, and Professions, on Healthy Living, by Charles Turner Thackrah. The first English-language treatise on occupational medicine.
Twelvemo, 202pp. Full sheep, title stamped in gilt on the spine, over black morocco label. Light foxing to endpapers, scattered toning throughout. Small chip at head of the spine, solid text block. The work is divided into four sections: on workmen, shopkeepers, merchants and master-manufacturers, and professional men.
“It attracted attention from both medical men and laymen at the time it appeared, and played an important part in stimulating the factory and health legislation which mitigated some of the worst features of the industrial revolution. The book also includes important information on the harmful effects of child labor.”
(Garrison-Morton 2123) (Shaw-Shomaker 9393)
Published the same year as the first English edition, this first American edition included explanations of the scientific terminology and the French and Latin phrases used in the text. (Norman 2064)
