The Works, Literary, Moral, and Medical, of Thomas Percival, M.D.: Volume 4: To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of his Life and Writings, and a Selection from his Literary Correspondence

A physician and medical reformer enthused by the scientific and cultural progress of the Enlightenment as it took hold in Britain, Thomas Percival (1740–1804) wrote on many topics, including public health and demography. His influential Medical Ethics (also reissued in this series) is considered the first modern formulation. In 1807, his son Edward published this four-volume collection of his father's diverse work. Some of the items here had never been published before, including a selectio...