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FERNEL, Johann |
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UNIVERSA MEDICINA |
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Eighth edition. Geneva, Petrus de la Rouiere, 1604. PHYSIOLOGIAE LIBRI VII: pp. 32 leaves, 647, (xxxv). DE ABDITIS RERUM CAUSIS LIBRI DUO: pp. 264, (xvi). THERAPEUTICES UNIVERSALIS, SEU MEDENDI RATIONIS, LIBRI SEPTEM: pp. 552, (xxx). Contemporary vellum, soiled and spine darkened. Single tiny worm track at base of first few leaves and larger one at base of several leaves in the text with no loss in either case. Light browning of text, very occasionally marked. |
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* Krivatsky 3999 (Lyon edition); G&M 2271 (1554 edition). The first systematic treatise on pathology. Jean Fernel (1497-1558) was born near Amiens in France and took a degree in medicine in 1530. He became the first court physician to King Henry II and saved Catherine de Medici from her state of childlessness. He was the first to describe appendicitis, endocarditis etc.; he believed aneurysms to be produced by syphilis, and differentiated true from false aneurysms. £335 £270 |
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FLOYER, Sir John |
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MEDICINA GEROCOMICA: or, the Galenic Art of Preserving Old Men's Healths, Explain'd: i Twenty Chapters. With an Appendix, concerning the Use of Oils and Unction, in some Diseases. And a Method, from a Florentine Physician, of Curing Convulsions and Epilep |
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The Second Edition, corrected. London, J. Isted. 1725. pp. xviii, (ii), 157, (iii). Contemporary panelled calf, rebacked with gilt decoration. Edges of covers rubbed and scattered minor spotting in text. A tight copy. |
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* G&M 1595 (Ist edition of the previous year). The first English book devoted to geriatrics. £695 £595 |
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FREIND, (John). |
| Title: |
THE HISTORY OF PHYSICK |
| Description: |
From the Time of Galen, To the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century. Two Volumes. London, J. Walthoe, 1727. Vol. 1: Third edition; pp. 312. Vol. 2: Second edition, corrected; pp. 415, 72. Uniformly bound in recent half leather. Staining of fore-edge of title and early leaves in volume 1, otherwise text very clean in both volumes. |
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* Wellcome III, p. 66; Blake, p. 161. G&M 6378: 'The first English historian of medicine, his book is the best English work on the period of which it treats'. Freind (1675-1728) was created doctor of medicine at Oxford in 1706, a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712, and a Fellow of the College of Physicians in 1716, and became member of Parliament for Launceston in 1722. Due to suspicion of involvement in the so-called 'bishops' plot' he was confined in the Tower of London where he planned this 'his most learned work'. Munk's Roll. £260 £220 |
| Author: |
FULLER, Thomas |
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PHARMACOPŒIA EXTEMPORANEA: OR, A BODY OF MEDICINES |
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Containing A Thousand Select Prescripts, Answering Most Intentions of Cure. Etc. Fifth Edition. London, W. Innys and R. Manby, 1740. Fine engraved Frontis. portrait. pp. (xviii), 464, (xxviii - Index, iv – Pubs. ads.). Contemporary full calf, covers a little stained, crack in spine and ends strengthened; top of first f.e.p. cut away. |
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* Blake, p. 163. Fuller (1654-1734) was born in Sussex and studied medicine at Cambridge where he became doctor of medicine in 1681. He settled in Sevenoaks where he was greatly esteemed by the rich, and adored by the poor (Munk’s Roll). £210 £170 |
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