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ARMITSTEAD, J. |
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DISSERTATIO MEDICA, INAUGURALIS, DE COLICA DAMNONIORUM. |
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Edinburgh, Balfour & Smellie, 1781. pp. (iv), 39. Recent marbled boards. Title page browned; text clean. |
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* In this doctoral thesis Armitstead discusses Huxham's classic description of the Devonshire colic in detail. £35 £25 |
| Author: |
CHASE, Heber. |
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TREATISE ON THE RADICAL CURE OF HERNIA BY INSTRUMENTS |
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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. |
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* Cordasco, no. 30-0178. Scarce, only three locations in the U.S. Not in Wellcome. £75 £45 |
| Author: |
LOUIS, P.C.A. |
| Title: |
RECHERCHES ANATOMIQUE, PATHOLOGIQUE ET THERAPEUTIQUE SUR LA MALADIE CONNUE SOUS LES NOMS DE FIEVRE TYPHOIDE |
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Putride, Adynamique, Ataxique, Bilieuse, Muqueuse, Gastro Enterite, Enterite Folliculeuse, Dothinenterie, etc. Comparée avec les Maladies Aigues les Plus Ordinaires. Deuxième Edition, Considerablement Augmentée. 2 Volumes. Paris, J.B.Bailliere. 1841. pp. (i), xxiii, 542; (iv), 523. Original quarter leather,marbled boards. Spines chipped and worn and laid down; light foxing of some of text. |
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* G&M 5023 - First edition of 1829 but has slightly different title.'Although Louis did not clearly differentiate typhus from typhoid fever, he gave the first clinical - pathological description of the latter, and he was the first to use the term 'typhoide' (meaning stupor) to indicate the mental condition of the patient This 2 volume treatise was based on a multitude of case studies' - Heirs of Hippocrates, 1440. Louis has been said to be the father of evidence-based medicine £165 £135 |
| Author: |
LUCRETIUS CARUS, Titus. |
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THE EPICUREAN PHILOSOPHER, His Six Books DE RERUM NATURA Done into English Verse, With Notes. The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. |
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Oxford, Printed by L. Lichfield...For Anthony Stephens. 1683. Engraved Frontispiece, pp. (xl), 223, 59. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Slight water staining at margins, mainly early and at the fore-edge, otherwise, a very good copy. |
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* Translated by Thomas Creech. A pencilled comment on the rear pastedown notes that this translation was highly praised by Mr Dryden.
Lucretius Carus (95-55 B.C.) was a contemporary of Varro and a poet and philosopher and, as Castiglioni notes, 'author of the most beautiful scientific work of classic Latinism, the De Rerum Natura, in which Lucretius discusses the mystery of life with the marvellous clarity of genius. Although he was not a physician, his famous work contains many advanced statements about anatomy and physiology, diet and hygiene, and the effect of climate; the sixth book gives the celebrated account of the Plague of Athens'. £255 £190 |
| Author: |
MEAD, Richard |
| Title: |
MONITA ET PRAECEPTA MEDICA |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION. London, John Brindley, 1751. pp. xii, 272. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked. Marginal browning of pastedown, f.e.p., half-title and title.A few spots/ink stains on very occasional leaves, otherwise text crisp and clean. Bookplate of Dr William Sargant. Ex libris Aberdeen Medical Society 1793 handwritten on f.e.p., and on title with donor's name. |
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* This first edition in Latin not in Blake. Wellcome IV, p. 96; Waller 6398. Mead's last book and consisting of a wide range of miscellaneous writings on neurological, mental, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, eye, skin and other diseases and conditions - HoH 771. Mead paid considerable attention to mental illness and made a number of interesting observations. He doubted whether mania and melancholia were essentially different. However, Mead's greatest influence on psychiatry was his theory that insanity was incompatible with other major disease because the body had not the power to sustain the two simultaneously; this was later shown to be false but resurfaced in the 1930s in terms of the incompatibility of schizophrenia and epilepsy (Hunter & Macalpine, p. 385-6). The first edition is scarce. £195 £150 |
| Author: |
PECHEY, John |
| Title: |
A COLLECTION OF CHRONICAL DISEASES |
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viz. The Colick: The Bilious Colick: Hysterick Diseases: The Gout: And the Bloody Urine from the Stone in the Kidnies. SOLE EDITION. London, Printed by J.R. and sold by Henry Bonwicke, 1692. pp. (viii), 152. Top of title page restored with loss of letter 'A' of the title. Browning/staining, mainly of the margins, and small marginal worm track affecting last 5 leaves. Recent half calf and marbled boards. |
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* Wing P1018; Krivatsky 8729. Following the success of his Collections of Acute Diseases, Pechey published this further selection, taken from the works of Sydenham (except for the first chapter which is from Rivière). It includes his classic description of gout, and of hysteria – see Hunter & Macalpine, 221-224. £365 £325 |
| Author: |
PHILIP, A.P.W. |
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A TREATISE ON INDIGESTION, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES, CALLED NERVOUS AND BILIOUS COMPLAINTS; With Observations on the Organic Diseases, in which they sometimes terminate. FIRST EDITION. London, Thomas and George Underwood, 1821. |
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pp. xiv, 363. Contemporary blue boards, rebacked preserving majority of original label. Top corner of upper cover nibbled. Fore-edge of leaves friable. |
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* Philip graduated from Edinburgh in 1792. This book was very popular and ran to several editions. 'It contained the best and completest account of the malady which had then appeared' - Munk's Roll. Vol. III, 227. £45 £30 |
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