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CULLEN, William |
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A TREATISE OF THE MATERIA MEDICA |
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Two volumes. FIRST EDITION. Edinburgh, Charles Elliott. 1789. Vol. 1: pp. xxiii, (i), 432. Vol. 2: pp. (iv), 610, (ii). Quarto. Modern quarter calf, marbled boards. Small library stamps of Manchester Medical Society on half-title, title and occasionally in the text; marginal browning, generally slight, and very occasional spotting. An attractive set. |
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* Blake, p. 105; G&M 1838. These two volumes represent Cullen's completely revised and expanded 'Lectures on the Materia Medica' first published in London in 1772. Waring (Bibliotheca Therapeutica) notes that Cullen 'rescued therapeutics from the domain of blind empiricism and placed it on something like a scientific basis'. £120 |
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WHITE, David. |
| Title: |
THE FIRST PHARMACY IN LUTON Established in 1825 AND THE HISTORY OF DUBERLY & WHITE. |
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Canterbury, Privately published, 2011. pp. 90, 68 Figs. A4, semi-stiff binding. |
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* A remarkable record of the extensive collection of documentation from 1841 to 1955 of this notable Luton pharmacy business. It includes interesting details of the prescription books, recipe books, advertisements and testimonials collected over this period and is profusely illustrated. £12 |
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WITHERS, Thomas. |
| Title: |
OBSERVATIONS ON THE ABUSE OF MEDICINES. |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION. London, J. Johnson, 1775. pp. ix, (iii), 356. Contemporary sheep, joints cracked; contained in an ancient dust jacket with near contemporary manuscript. Ownership inscriptions dated 1784 and 1791 on f.e.p. Patchy light browning thoughout much of contents. |
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* Blake, p. 493. Withers dedicated this work to William Cullen. He discusses the unnecessary and imprudent use, and neglect, of medicines in the categories of blood-letting, emetics and purgatives, sudorifics, blisters, stimulants, sedatives and tonics. £295 |
| Author: |
SAUNDERS, William |
| Title: |
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. £370 |
| 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'. £495 |
| Author: |
MORTIMER, W. G. |
| Title: |
PERU. HISTORY OF COCA. "THE DIVINE PLANT" OF THE INCAS. |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION. New York, J.H.Vail & Company, 1901. pp. xxxi, 576; Frontis. and numerous Figs. Original red cloth, recased. Ex lib. with small stamp only at top of both f.e.ps, title and first page of Preface. |
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* G&M 2040.1 - The most comprehensive work on the coca plant and the history of its use by the Incas and their descendants. Research on the active principle, cocaine, is documented from its isolation in 1859 to the end of the 19th century. £150 |
| Author: |
RAY, John |
| Title: |
A COLLECTION OF CURIOUS TRAVELS AND VOYAGES |
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In Two Tomes. The First containing Dr Leonhart Rauwolff’s Itinerary into the Eastern Countries, as Syria, Palestine, or the Holy Land, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Chaldea, &c. Translated from the High Dutch by Nicholas Staphorst. The Second taking in many parts of Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, Arabia Felix, and Petræa, Ethiopia, the Red-Sea. &c. from the Observations of Mons. Belon, Mr Vernon, Dr Spon, Dr Smith, Dr Huntingdon, Mr Greaves, Alpinus, Veslingius, Thevenot’s Collections, and others. To which are added, Three Catalogues of such Trees, Shrubs, and Herbs as grow in the Levant. FIRST EDITION. London, S. Smith and B. Walford, 1693. pp. (xxxii), 396, (iv), 1 – 186, 45, (iii - Pubs. ads.). Contemporary calf (a little marked), rebacked, corners knocked. Bookplate: Ex libris The New York Horticultural Society bequest of Kenneth Mackenzie on first f.e.p.which is chipped at the fore margin; sig. of G. Vernon 1817 on front pastedown. Most of the text browned, sometimes heavily; tiny worm hole at extreme fore margin of first few leaves. |
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* Wing 385, only ed. here; Krivatsky 9400. Ray (1629-1705) was born and died at Black Notley in Essex. He obtained his B.A. at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1648 and was elected F.R.S. in 1667. Ray published this work in order to draw attention to the botanical observations contained in the writings of Rauwolf and others. He revised the text of Staphorst’s translation of Dr Leonhart Rauwolf’s ‘Travels’ and added a catalogue of rare oriental plants; Ray wrote to Sir Hans Sloane inviting him to make additions to this list. Staphorst was a German who, according to Ray in a letter to Edward Llwyd, was the “chymical operator to the Company of ye Apothecaries” (Keynes).
Rauwolf (1535-1596) was born in Augsburg and studied at Montpellier and then at Valence where he received his M.D. degree; he became city physician at Augsburg in 1570. He went on a 33 month field trip to Marseilles and the Near East in 1573 with the aim of finding new drugs from plants; his description of the preparation and drinking of coffee in Aleppo is the first such report by a European. In 1703, in recognition of Rauwolf’s many achievements, Plumier dedicated to him a genus of tropical plants, ‘Rauwolfia serpentina’. Rauwolfia alkaloids, of which reserpine accounts for 50% of its activity, are still in medicinal use today (DSB, xi, 311).
£750 |
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