| Author: |
CELSUS, Aurelius, Cornelius |
| Title: |
DE RE MEDICA LIBRI OCTO. . Item SERENI |
| Description: |
Liber de Medicina. Rhemnii Fannii Palæmonis de Ponderibus & Mensuris Liber. Lyons, Apud Ioan Tornæsium, & Gulielmum Gazeium, 1549. pp. 581, (xxv). Small 8vo. ? contemporary vellum-covered boards with blindstamped device on both covers which are soiled. Littlecote bookplate on front pastedown. Title page with some staining and old repair (not affecting lettering); light fore-edge water stain on many leaves. Otherwise a tight and clean copy. |
|
* Durling 914; Adams 1245. This work by Aulus Celsus (fl. A.D. 25) is the oldest Western medical document after the Hippocratic writings. The Text, which gives an account of the whole of medicine and surgery, is based on a thorough and impartial use of Greek material from the last two centuries B.C. carefully worked into a harmonious and effective unity, and expressed in elegant Ciceronian Latin (HoH). £390 |
| Author: |
CHANDLER, John. |
| Title: |
A TREATISE OF THE DISEASE CALLED A COLD; Shewing its general Nature, and Causes; its various Species, and different Events. |
| Description: |
Together with Some cautionary Rules of Conduct, proper to be observed, in order to avoid taking this Disease, or to get safely rid of it when taken. Also a short Description of the genuine Nature and Seat of the PUTRID SORE THROAT. FIRST EDITION. London, A. Millar, R. & J. Dodsley and J. Noon, 1761. pp. (iv), 123. Recent clothbacked boards. Slight browning of title, contents clean apart from occasional old ink corrections to the text, mainly in the margins. |
|
* Blake, p. 84. Chandler (1700-1780) was an apothecary but also F.R.S. He also wrote on smallpox and fraudulent drugs. Scarce. £190 |
| Author: |
CHASE, Heber. |
| Title: |
TREATISE ON THE RADICAL CURE OF HERNIA BY INSTRUMENTS |
| Description: |
Embracing an analysis of the mechanical properties of the various trusses now in use, a description of the new instruments invented by the author, etc. Philadelphia, J.G.Auner, 1836. pp. xiii, 195, (viii - Pubs. ads). Original cloth-backed blue boards, soiled and corners repaired, spine relaid; label chipped. Light spotting/browning throughout. One leaf of text supplied in facsimile; tears on two leaves repaired without loss. |
|
* Cordasco, no. 30-0178. Scarce, only three locations in the U.S. Not in Wellcome. £45 |
| Author: |
CHEYNE, George |
| Title: |
THE ENGLISH MALADY: OR, A TREATISE OF NERVOUS DISEASES OF ALL KINDS |
| Description: |
As Spleen, Vapours, Lowness of Spirits, Hypochondriacal, and Hysterical Distempers, etc. In Three Parts. FIRST EDITION. London, G. Strahan and J. Leake, 1733. pp. (vi), xxxii, (i), 370, (vi - Pubs. ads.). Contemporary panelled calf, neat repair to top of spine; new label. Sig. of Thos. Welman dated 1735 on f.e.p.; light browning of 16 leaves in centre of text; otherwise a very good copy. |
|
* G&M 4840 - 'Cheyne (1671-1743) attributed hypochondria ('Cheyne's Disease') to the moisture of the air and variability of the weather in the British Isles. Cheyne himself suffered from this disease and the work includes a careful account of his own case history'. Hunter & Macalpine, p. 351. £580 |
| Author: |
CULLEN, William |
| Title: |
NOSOLOGY: OR, A SYSTEMATIC ARRANGEMENT OF DISEASES BY CLASSES, GENERA, AND SPECIES |
| Description: |
With the Distinguishing Characters of Each, and Outlines of the Systems of Sauvages, Linn¾us, Vogel, Sagar, and Macbride. FIRST EDITION. Edinburgh, William Creech, 1800. pp. (i), 237; folding Table. Contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked retaining original label, and recornered. Endpapers and title browned at fore margin and very occasionally elsewhere; tear in one leaf repaired without loss. |
|
* A translation of volume 2 of Cullen's Synopsis Nosologiæ Methodicæ, Edinburgh, 1769, the work which made his reputation. Appears to be scarce. £180 |
| Author: |
CULLEN, William |
| Title: |
A TREATISE ON THE MATERIA MEDICA |
| Description: |
Two volumes. FIRST EDITION. Edinburgh, Charles Elliott. 1789. Vol. 1: pp. xxiii, (i), 432. Vol. 2: pp. (iv), 610, (ii). Quarto. Modern quarter calf, marbled boards. Small library stamps of Manchester Medical Society on half-title, title and occasionally in the text; marginal browning, generally slight, and very occasional spotting. An attractive set. |
|
* Blake, p. 105; G&M 1838. These two volumes represent Cullen's completely revised and expanded 'Lectures on the Materia Medica' first published in London in 1772. Waring (Bibliotheca Therapeutica) notes that Cullen 'rescued therapeutics from the domain of blind empiricism and placed it on something like a scientific basis'. £300 |
|
6 records found
|
