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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
* 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

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