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WARDROP, James. |
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OBSERVATIONS ON FUNGUS HÆMATODES OR SOFT CANCER |
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in several of the most important organs of the human body: containing also a comparative view of the structure of fungus hæmatodes and cancer. With cases and dissections. FIRST EDITION. Edinburgh, Printed by George Ramsay and Company, for Archibald Constable and Company etc. 1809. pp. xiii, 205, (x - Pubs. ads.); 6 full page stipple-engraved plates with tissue guards, plate IV as Frontispiece; damp stain to outer lower corner of the 5 plates at the rear. 4 text engravings. Contemporary brown boards, rebacked retaining original paper label. Leaves untrimmed. Stamp of J. Knox. Napier Latham House at top of first text page otherwise text clean. |
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* An important work on tumours by Wardrop (1782-1869), an Edinburgh graduate who moved to London. There is a lengthy chapter dealing with the eyeball (he is best remembered for his ‘Essays on the Morbid Anatomy of the Human Eye’ – he was the first to use the term’keratitis’)). Other chapters deal with tumours of the extremities, testicle, liver, spleen, kidney, lungs, uterus, ovary and breast. Wardrop estranged his colleagues by writing a number of acrimonious and abusive papers in the Lancet – Garrison, p.486. £585 £510 |
| Author: |
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. £135 £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. £120 £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. £435 £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. |
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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. £435 £300 |
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