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SAUNDERS, William |
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ELEMENTS OF THE PRACTICE OF PHYSIC, for the Use of Gentlemen who attend Lectures on that Subject. Read at Guy's Hospital. |
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No publisher or place of publication - ? London. 1784. pp. 136, interleaved with two blanks between each text page. Manuscript lecture notes on 12 leaves before title and on virtually all blank leaves within and after the text, probably in one (legible) hand throughout. Contemporary calf with later reback and new endpapers; close cropped with some marginal loss, mainly to running titles. |
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* Wellcome has the first edition of 1780 and the 1798 edition; Blake, p. 402, 1790 edition. Saunders (1743-1817) was born in Banff and received his medical education at Edinburgh. He then settled in London and was elected physician to Guy's Hospital in 1790. He was elected Fellow of the College of Physicians in 1790 and was Harveian orator in 1796. He died at Enfield (Munks's Roll). The copious manuscript in this volume, which appears to read as verbatim notes, follows the chapter topics and covers all aspects of medicine of the time, including treatments. It seems likely that the writer of the notes was a student at Guy's. £635 £520 |
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CARDANO, Girolamo |
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LES LIVRES DE HIEROSME CARDANUS |
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Medecin Milannois, intitulez de la Subtilité, & subtiles inventions, ensemble les causes occultes, & raisons d’icelles. Traduits de Latin en François, par Richard le Blanc. Nouvellement reveus, corrigez, & augmentez sur le dernier exemplaire Latin de l’Auteur, & enrichy de plusieurs figures necessaires. Rouen, Chez La Veuve du Bosc, 1642. pp. (lxxii), 479; woodcuts in the text. Later full vellum, spine soiled. Small bookplate on front pastedown; old faded sig. on title page. Very clean copy |
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* Cushing C84 for the first edition in French, Paris, 1556. Not in Krivatsky. This is an encyclopedic work on the natural sciences and was the most advanced presentation of physical knowledge up to his time – Dibner, Heralds of Science, 139. Cardanus (1501-1576) was a scholar, philosopher, physician, mathematician, astrologer and gambler; he rose to become the second most prominent physician in Europe after Vesalius. This was his most celebrated work, first published in Latin in 1550 at Nuremberg. £675 £480 |
| Author: |
CHARAS, Moses |
| Title: |
THE ROYAL PHARMACOPOEIA |
| Description: |
Galenical and Chymical, According to the Practice of the Most Eminent and Learned Physitians of France, and Publish’d with their several Approbations. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. London, John Starkey and Moses Pitt, 1678. Folio. pp. (viii), 272, 245, 5 engraved Plates of apparatus with explanatory text and 1 Plate of chemical symbols. Recent half calf and marbled boards. Last two leaves of the Chymical Index supplied in facsimile. Title page (stained) mounted; scattered light spotting and browning, particularly to margins. |
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* Wing C2040; Wellcome II, p. 327; Krivatsky 2376 (imperfect) £795 £690 |
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FERNEL, Johann |
| Title: |
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 |
| Author: |
MACMICHAEL, William |
| Title: |
THE GOLD-HEADED CANE |
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FIRST EDITION. London, John Murray, 1827. Extra illustrated copy. pp. (viii with 2 blanks), 179, (i); 98 inserted Plates each with tissue guard, with reference to the plate in the text on the opposing page; mainly portraits but also buildings and including as a Frontispiece the College of Physicians followed by The Siege of Warwick Castle – Battle between the Fellows and Licentiates; 1 folding – Consultation of Physicians, after Hogarth. Also woodcuts in the text. Contemporary full polished dark blue calf with raised bands and gilt decoration (slight rubbing of spine); all edges gilt. Occasional light spotting in the text and on some plates. Contemporary ink comment in Latin at foot of portrait of the Bishop of Rochester; light water stain in lower corner of portraits of Sir Humphrey Davy and John Hunter. |
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* G&M 6709. Besides good biographies of the several owners of the gold-headed cane (now in the R.C.P. London) including Radcliffe, Mead and Baillie, the book gives interesting information on the condition of medicine in England in the 18th century.
A number of extra illustrated copies have been offered on the market with varying numbers of inserted plates ranging from 40 to 72 but the present copy seems to be most unusual in having so many – 98 plates.
£775 £600 |
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