| 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. |
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* 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'. £435 £300 |
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