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CHEYNE, George |
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THE ENGLISH MALADY: OR, A TREATISE OF NERVOUS DISEASES OF ALL KINDS |
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As Spleen, Vapours, Lowness of Spirits, Hypochondriacal, and Hysterical Distempers, etc. In Three Parts. FIRST EDITION. London, G. Strahan and J. Leake, 1733. pp. (vi), xxxii, (i), 370, (vi - Pubs. ads.). Contemporary panelled calf, neat repair to top of spine; new label. Sig. of Thos. Welman dated 1735 on f.e.p.; light browning of 16 leaves in centre of text; otherwise a very good copy. |
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* G&M 4840 - 'Cheyne (1671-1743) attributed hypochondria ('Cheyne's Disease') to the moisture of the air and variability of the weather in the British Isles. Cheyne himself suffered from this disease and the work includes a careful account of his own case history'. Hunter & Macalpine, p. 351. £695 £580 |
| Author: |
CUSHING, Harvey |
| Title: |
PAPERS RELATING TO THE PITUITARY BODY, HYPOTHALAMUS AND PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM |
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FIRST EDITION. Springfield, Charles C. Thomas, 1932. pp. vii, 234, (i); 99 Figs. Green cloth, a few small stains. Small hole (? paper flaw) on title page. A very good copy. |
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* G&M 3552 - 'Cushing advanced the theory that the hypothalamus is responsible for the development of peptic ulcer. This work contains his four principal contributions to pituitary-hypothalamic interrelationships, including a reprint of his description of pituitary basophilism'. £245 £180 |
| 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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