| Infectious Diseases Books |
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BEDDOES, Thomas. |
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OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF CALCULUS, SEA SCURVY, CONSUMPTION, CATARRH, AND FEVER |
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Together with Conjectures upon Several other Subjects of Physiology and Pathology. FIRST EDITION. London, John Murray, 1793. pp. xvi, 278, (ii - errata and pubs. ads.). Contemporary clothbacked blue boards, scuffed. Spine repaired and relaid. Pages uncut. Ex lib. Karolinska Institute with neat stamp on inner margin of title page which is slightly browned and spotted. Text clean. |
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* Blake, p. 38; Wellcome II, 128 £330 £285 |
| Author: |
BELLINI, Lorenzo |
| Title: |
A MECHANICAL ACCOUNT OF FEVERS |
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FIRST EDITION. London, A. Bell etc., 1720. pp. xxxii, 416. Contemporary panelled calf, neat repair to top of spine; new label. Nice copy. |
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* Blake, p. 40; Wellcome II, p. 140. Bellini (1643-1704) of Florence was a pupil of Redi and Borelli; he occupied the chair of medicine at Pisa at the early age of twenty one. He is best known for his work on the kidney. £275 £225 |
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CLEGHORN, George |
| Title: |
OBSERVATIONS ON THE EPIDEMICAL DISEASES IN MINORCA. FROM THE YEAR 1744 to 1749. |
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To which is prefixed, A Short Account of the Climate, Productions, Inhabitants, and Endemical Distempers, of that Island. Third edition. London, T.Cadell, D. Wilson, G, Nicol, 1768. pp. xxiv, 311. Contemporary sheep, rebacked, part of original label replaced. Ex lib. Karolinska Institute with small ink markings at head and foot of title page. |
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* Blake, p. 90, Wellcome II, p. 357. G&M 1674: 'Cleghorn (1716-1789) left a good account of several diseases and conditions not previously observed, among them epidemic jaundice. He included in his book accounts of many post-mortems'. £450 £395 |
| Author: |
GREGORY, George |
| Title: |
LECTURES ON ERUPTIVE FEVERS |
| Description: |
Delivered at St. Thomas's Hospital in January 1843. FIRST EDITION. London, Henry Renshaw, 1843. pp. xii, 258, (ii - Pubs. ads.). Contemporary black decorated cloth, rebacked. Author's presentation inscription on f.e.p. (both endpapers browned, light marginal browning of title). Two worm holes extending from the covers throughout. Partly unopened. Text clean. |
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* George Gregory was physician to the Small Pox and Vaccination Hospital in London for many years. This work contains much material on the history of smallpox and vaccination as well as its status and treatment in the mid 19th century. Other diseases considered include measles and scarlet fever. Bloomfield (p. 432) notes that Gregory gives an excellent description of measles which on three counts he distinguishes from scarlet fever. £95 £75 |
| Author: |
HANCOCKE, John |
| Title: |
FEBRIFUGUM MAGNUM: OR, COMMON WATER THE BEST CURE FOR FEVERS, AND PROBABLY FOR THE PLAGUE |
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Sixth edition. London, Printed for R. Halsey..And Sold by J. Roberts, 1723. pp. (vi), 3-108. Modern calf-backed marbled boards. Title a little soiled. |
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* Blake, p.197. A very popular work - 5 editions were published in 1723 alone. The author, a rector and Chaplain to the Duke of Bedford, makes reference to physiciansÕ views on the causes and treatment of fevers, especially Sydenham and Pitcairne. £120 £95 |
| Author: |
HUXHAM, John |
| Title: |
AN ESSAY ON FEVERS |
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To which is added, A Dissertation on the Malignant, Ulcerous Sore Throat. Fourth edition. London, J. Hinton, 1764. pp. xvi, 336. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked with majority of original spine and label laid down. Light marginal browning of prelims., very occasional marks in the text which is otherwise clean and crisp. Nice copy. |
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* Blake, p. 227. £185 £145 |
| Author: |
HUXHAM, John. |
| Title: |
AN ESSAY ON FEVERS, And their Various Kinds, As depending on Different Conditions of the Blood: With Dissertations on Slow Nervous Fevers; on Putrid, Pestilential, Spotted Fevers; on the SMALL-POX; and on Pleurisies and Peripneumonies. Second edition. |
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London, S. Austen. 1750. pp. xvi, 288. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, scuffed; original spine relaid with new endpapers. Margins of title page stained and occasional light marginal staining/spotting in the text. |
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* G&M 2201 - 'Huxham's best work...He seemed to appreciate that a difference existed between typhus and typhoid, at that time usually regarded as one condition. This book included the first use (p. 20) of the word influenza by an English physician'. £185 £145 |
| Author: |
JACKSON, Robert. |
| Title: |
AN OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY AND CURE OF FEVER, ENDEMIC AND CONTAGIOUS; MORE EXPRESSLY THE CONTAGIOUS FEVER OF JAILS, SHIPS AND HOSPITALS; THE CONCENTRATED EPIDEMIC, VULGARLY THE YELLOW FEVER OF THE WEST INDIES |
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To which is added, An Explanation of the Principles of Military Discipline and Economy; with a Scheme of Medical Arrangement for Armies. FIRST EDITION. Edinburgh, Mundell & Son; and for T.N.Longman, and Murray Highley, London. 1798. pp. xi, 396, (xvi - Pubs. ads., running title shaved, sometimes with loss). Contemporary mottled sheep, rebacked. Top third of f.e.p. replaced. Ex Lib. Karolinska Institute with neat signature stamp at inner edge of title page. Very occasional light browning/spotting in text. |
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* Blake p, 232, Wellcome III, p. 337. Not in Waller.
Robert Jackson (1750-1827) obtained his M.D. in Leiden. He was a notable reformer of the Army Medical service. He spent six years in the West Indies, practising surgery in Jamaica, and went through the American War of Independence. Later in his career he was appointed inspector of hospitals and went to Spain and the Levant to study yellow fever and plague.
£425 £395 |
| Author: |
KENNEDY, James |
| Title: |
THE HISTORY OF THE CONTAGIOUS CHOLERA; with Facts Explanatory of its Origins and Laws, and of a Rational Method of Cure. |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION. London, James Cochrane and Co. 1831. pp. xv, 291; 2 folding engraved maps, text tables. Contemporary green cloth, a little marked; spine (discoloured), relaid; label chipped. Library stamp on front pastedown. With the compliments of the author in ink to the Right Honourable Lord Broughma and Vaux on the f.e.p. Contents clean. |
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* Wellcome III, p. 384. Mainly concerned with cholera in India but useful general information on its spread and symptoms. £445 £395 |
| 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: |
LOUIS, Pierre, Ch. A. |
| Title: |
RECHERCHES ANATOMICO-PATHOLOGIQUES SUR LA PHTHISIE |
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FIRST EDITION. Paris, Gabon. 1825. pp. xxiv, 16, 560. Recent quarter red morocco, marbled boards. Very occasional minor browning in the text and index but an unusually clean and crisp copy. |
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* G&M 3221. One of the most influential figures in French medicine, Louis received his medical degree from the University of Paris in 1813. This work on tuberculosis, which established Louis' reputation as a clinician, gives a numerical study of extrapulmonary lesions based on 358 dissections and 1960 cases. His use of statistical analysis is noteworthy £320 £220 |
| Author: |
MEAD, Richard |
| Title: |
MEDICA SACRA; or, A COMMENTARY ON THE MOST REMARKABLE DISEASES, MENTIONED IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. |
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Translated from the Latin, under the Author's Inspection, by Thomas Stack. To which are prefixed, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Learned Author. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. London, J. Brindley, 1755. pp. (iv), 49, (iii), xxii,120. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked. Ex the Inner Temple Library with stamps on title and at rear. Text clean apart from occasional light marginal browning. |
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* Blake, p. 295. HoH 770 – ‘Mead’s purpose in this book was to account on natural grounds for the diseases mentioned in the Bible’. He explains Job’s complaint as elephantiasis, Saul’s as melancholia, Jehoram’s as dysentery, Hezekial’s as an abscess and so forth. He also discusses leprosy, palsy and demoniacal possession’. £255 £200 |
| Author: |
MEAD, Richard |
| Title: |
MEDICA SACRA: sive De Morbis Insignioribus, qui in Bibliis Memorantur, Commentarius. |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION. London, John Brindley, 1749. pp. xix, (iii), 108. Contemporary full calf with gilt dentelles in corners. Rebacked and corners reinforced. Bookplate of W. Wynne on front pastedown. One mark in the text with loss of two letters, otherwise a very clean copy. |
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* Blake, p. 295; HoH 770 – ‘Mead’s purpose in this book was to account on natural grounds for the diseases mentioned in the Bible’. He explains Job’s complaint as elephantiasis, Saul’s as melancholia, Jehoram’s as dysentery, Hezekial’s as an abscess and so forth. He also discusses leprosy, palsy and demoniacal possession’. £165 £120 |
| Author: |
PETTIGREW, Thomas, J |
| Title: |
A HISTORY OF EGYPTIAN MUMMIES |
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and an account of the worship and embalming of the sacred animals by the Egyptians; with remarks on the funeral ceremonies of different nations, and observations on mummies of the Canary Islands, of the ancient Peruvians, Burman priests etc. FIRST EDITION. London, Longman etc., 1834. Subscription edition of 355. Large 4to. pp. xxi, (i), 264, (i - errata et corrigenda); 13 Plates (4 in colour including the Frontispiece - offsetting on title), all bar one by George Cruikshank; 7 of the uncoloured plates have patchy light browning/spotting. Contemporary brown boards (a little rubbed), rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Bookplate of Christopher Tower on front pastedown. |
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* Pettigrew (1791-1865) was born in London. He studied anatomy and was one of the original 300 Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was distinguished as both surgeon and antiquary; his interest in embalming began in 1822. He was appointed the first surgeon, from 1822 to 1830, to the fore-runner of the Charing Cross Hospital where he lectured on physiology and anatomy; he was elected F.R.S. in 1827. £785 £600 |
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