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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 |
| Author: |
MEAD, Richard |
| Title: |
DE VARIOLIS ET MORBILIS LIBER. Huic accessit RHAZIS, medici inter Arabis celeberrimi, de iisdem morbis Commentarius |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION. London, John Brindley, 1747. pp. xvi, 197. Contemporary full calf (a little rubbed), rebacked with new label. Old manuscript on front pastedown; light marginal staining of first and last leaves and some fingering in margins of text |
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* Wellcome IV, p. 96; G&M 5417 - 'Includes a Latin translation of Rhaze's commentary. Mead favoured inoculation, and his great authority and influence helped towards a more general acceptance of this measure'. £265 |
| 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 |
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