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WARING, Edward, J |
| Title: |
PHARMACOPŒIA OF INDIA |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION. London, India Office, W.H.Allen & Co., 1868. pp. xvi, 502, (i – errata). Original green, blindstamped pebbled cloth, slightly rubbed. Title browned with two sigs. at top. Ink letter on two pages, otherwise text clean and crisp. |
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* This work, for the Indian Medical Department and based on the British Pharmacopœia, re-models the Bengal Pharmacopœia of 1844. It provides valuable information on the medicinal properties and therapeutic uses of the indigenous drugs of India. £110 |
| Author: |
WHITE, Thomas |
| Title: |
A TREATISE ON THE STRUMA OR SCROFULA, COMMONLY CALLED THE KINGÕS EVIL |
| Description: |
The Second Edition. London, J. Murray, J. Walter and R. and T. Turner, 1787. pp. viii, 100. Recent calf-backed marbled boards. Title a little soiled with old library inscription; very occasional light spotting/ink spots in the text but, overall, a very good copy. |
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* Blake, p. 488. Thomas White, Surgeon to the London Dispensary, dedicates this work to the President, the Marquis of Landsdown, and the Vice-Presidents of that institution. White gives a useful history of the disease, first called the KingÕs Evil in the reign of Edward the Confessor, and its various manifestations together with his recommendations for its treatment. £90 |
| Author: |
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. £380 |
| Author: |
WOOLLCOMBE, William |
| Title: |
REMARKS ON THE FREQUENCY AND FATALITY OF DIFFERENT DISEASES, PARTICULARLY ON THE PROGRESSIVE INCREASE OF CONSUMPTION: with Observations on the Influence of the Seasons om Mortality. |
| Description: |
SOLE EDITION. London, Longman etc. and Ress and Curtis, Plymouth. 1808. pp. (iv), vii, 155; 25 Tables. Old marbled boards with vellum corners, new calf spine. Paper flaw on first leaf; dark stain at top margin of leaves, mainly at the beginning and end. Otherwise contents clean. |
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*Not in Wellcome; the latter has his doctoral dissertation on puerperal peritonitis published Edinburgh, 1796. The present book is concerned with statistical medicine, concentrating on the prevalence of various diseases in Plymouth with frequency of death, and with breakdown of deaths by age and month in several areas of England together with mortality data for European cities. £300 |
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