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BREE, Robert |
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A PRACTICAL INQUIRY INTO DISORDERED RESPIRATION; Distinguishing the Species of Convulsive Asthma, their Causes and Indications of Cure. Fifth edition, Corrected and Improved. With Additioanl Observations. |
| Description: |
London, J. Callow. 1815. pp. xxiv, 372. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, a little scuffed. Occasional spotting, mainly at the beginning and end. A tight copy. |
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£180 |
| Author: |
CHANDLER, John. |
| Title: |
A TREATISE OF THE DISEASE CALLED A COLD; Shewing its general Nature, and Causes; its various Species, and different Events. |
| Description: |
Together with Some cautionary Rules of Conduct, proper to be observed, in order to avoid taking this Disease, or to get safely rid of it when taken. Also a short Description of the genuine Nature and Seat of the PUTRID SORE THROAT. FIRST EDITION. London, A. Millar, R. & J. Dodsley and J. Noon, 1761. pp. (iv), 123. Recent clothbacked boards. Slight browning of title, contents clean apart from occasional old ink corrections to the text, mainly in the margins. |
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* Blake, p. 84. Chandler (1700-1780) was an apothecary but also F.R.S. He also wrote on smallpox and fraudulent drugs. Scarce. £190 |
| 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. |
| Description: |
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 |
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