| Infectious Diseases Books |
| Author: |
BEDDOES, Thomas. |
| Title: |
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 £285 |
| Author: |
BELLINI, Lorenzo |
| Title: |
A MECHANICAL ACCOUNT OF FEVERS |
| Description: |
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. £225 |
| 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. £75 |
| Author: |
HUXHAM, John |
| Title: |
AN ESSAY ON FEVERS |
| Description: |
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. £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'. £145 |
| Author: |
LOUIS, P.C.A. |
| Title: |
RECHERCHES ANATOMIQUE, PATHOLOGIQUE ET THERAPEUTIQUE SUR LA MALADIE CONNUE SOUS LES NOMS DE FIEVRE TYPHOIDE |
| Description: |
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 £135 |
| Author: |
LOUIS, Pierre, Ch. A. |
| Title: |
RECHERCHES ANATOMICO-PATHOLOGIQUES SUR LA PHTHISIE |
| Description: |
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 £220 |
| 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’. £120 |
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