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

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 publication on medical ethics 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 selection of Percival's private correspondence and a biographical account written by Edward.

Volume 1 contains this biography and the full text of Percival's popular self-improvement book, A Father's Instructions.

Volume 2 contains essays on moral and literary subjects.

Also included is the text of Percival's Medical Ethics (1803).

Volume 3 contains the first two parts of Essays Medical and Experimental, the revised edition of which has been reissued separately in this series in one volume.

Volume 4 contains the third and fourth parts, which were completed following the revised edition.