12mo. xl, 300pp, [4]. Contemporary gilt-tooled mottled sheep, calf lettering-piece, marbled edges. Heavily rubbed, some loss to head of spine. Early manuscript shelf-mark and recent book-label of Le Docteur Georges Martin to FEP, worm-track to lower corner of text-block, marginal loss to leaf Y1, scattered spotting.

A French edition of John Wesley's (1703-1791) home medical handbook originally titled Primitive Physic, Or an Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases. Receiving 23 editions and selling over a million copies, the original text became the most popular medical manual of its day. Wesley, a cleric and evangelist, encouraged his preachers to carry a copy with them in their travels.