Fifth edition of the Practical Proofs of the Soundness of the Hygeian System of Physiology, giving incontrovertible testimony to the afflicted, of the inestimable value of Morison's vegetable universal medicines: including, with other matter, 'The Origin of life, and cause of all diseases explained; 'an entirely new view of the origin of the small-pox virus, and of its being most certainly eradicable, or rendered harmless; and sundry cases of cure, with most important information connected with the successful promulgation of the Hygeian system in the United States of America.
New York: Printed by W. Mitchell, 265 Bowery... for Dr. H. Shepheard Moat... 1834. Octavo (18.5 x 11.5 cm.), 228 pages. Stated Fifth Edition. An American issue of the primary work of the British quack-physician James Morison "the Hygeist" (1768-1840), flogging uses of his Hygeian Vegetable Universal Medicine. The book contains "the Hygeist's account of his own cause of cure, as extracted from Morisoniana"; "origin of life, and causes of.....