The Works, Literary, Moral, and Medical, of Thomas Percival, M.D.: Volume 2 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 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 2 contains essays on moral and literary subjects, notably a Socratic discourse on truth as well as miscellaneous observations on the influence of habit and association. Also included are a memoir of the philanthropist Thomas Butterworth Bayley and the text of Percival's Medical Ethics (1803), which has been reissued separately in this series along with his Essays Medical and Experimental (revised edition, 1772–3).

Dedication; Preface; A Socratic discourse on truth; Miscellaneous observations on the influence of habit and association; On inconsistency of expectation in literary pursuits; On the advantages of a taste for the general beauties of nature, and of art; Miscellaneous observations on the alliance of natural history, and philosophy, with poetry; On the intellectual and moral conduct of experimental pursuits; A tribute to the memory of Charles de Polier; General appendix to the foregoing dissertations; An enquiry into the principles and limits of taxation; Appendix; Biographical memoirs of the late Thomas Butterworth Bayley; Dissertatio medica inauguralis de frigore; Medical Ethics.