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JACKSON, Robert. |
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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.
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| Author: |
JAMES, R(obert). |
| Title: |
PHARMACOPOEIA UNIVERSALIS: or, A NEW UNIVERSAL ENGLISH DISPENSATORY. |
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FIRST EDITION. London, J. Hodges and J. Wood, 1747. pp. xxxi, 836, (xxxxvi). Contemporary full calf, spine rubbed and covers scratched but binding firm. An old prescription on an endpaper. Very clean internally. |
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* Blake 233. James (1703-1776) was initially educated at the grammar school in Litchfield where he was a contemporary of Samuel Johnson who remained a friend thereafter. James received his doctorate from Cambridge in 1728 and was admitted L.R.C.P. in 1765 on moving to London. Dr Johnson is reported to have said that 'no man brought more mind to his profession' (Munk's Roll, Vol. II, p. 269). The first edition is scarce. £425 £385 |
| Author: |
JONES, John |
| Title: |
THE MYSTERIES OF OPIUM REVEAL'D |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION. London, Richard Smith, 1701. pp. (xi), 371; folding Table of doses of opiates, tear neatly repaired. Contemporary panelled calf with gilt decoration to spine which is relaid, corners repaired; two old ink sigs. on title; light spotting/browning in the text and two old red ink marks in margin of two pages; small burn in one leaf with loss of one letter; browning of fore-margin of last leaf. |
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* Blake, p. 236. The earliest English description of drug addiction. Hunter & Macalpine, p. 282-284 - 'From this early treatise on opium, its actions, uses and abuses are quoted descriptions of chronic opium addiction which the author recognised as comparable to alcoholism; the opium withdrawal or abstinence syndrome; and his method of withdrawing the drug from an addict which included the use of wine as a partial substitute until withdrawal was complete'. £720 £695 |
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