Genga (Bernardino). Anatomy Improv`d and Illustrated with Regard to the uses thereof in Designing: Not only laid down from an Examen of the Bones and Muscles of the Human Body but also Demonstrated and Exemplified from the Most Celebrated Antique Statues in Rome... The Explanations and Indexes Added by John Maria Lancissi, P. Physitian to his Holyness Pope Innocent XI. First Published in Rome by Dom di Rossi and now Re-engraven by the Ablest Hands in England. And Republish`d by John Senex, [1723], 59 engraved plates, including 42 anatomical plates by John Sturt and Michael van der Gucht, list of subscriber`s at end, title with small repair at lower corner (light marginal soiling), plates VII & XIX with repairs, a few minor spots, small presentation label from Mrs G Evans, modern cloth, folio. This is one of the finest of all books on anatomy for artists` (G-M 386). Russell 313. (1)
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Giffard (William). Cases in Midwifry, Revis`d and Publish`d by Edward Hody, 1st edition, 1734, three folding engraved plates (first plate signed A. Motte), occasional light water stains, library stamps, BMI presentation label from Oliver Pemberton, modern red half morocco, spine a little faded, 4to (234 x 180mm) Contains, under Case 14, the earliest published record of the use of the hitherto secret Chamberlen forceps, in 1726, together with illustrations of two variant types. Giffard is considered the first English obstetrician to publish substantial contributions to clinical midwifery.` (G-M 6156.3). He was the first to use the Mauriceau-Smellie-Veitm method of extracting the aftercoming head and performed the now termed Ritgen Manoeuvre (for the prevention of tears to the perineum during delivery. Norman 902; Wellcome III, p.114. (1)
Grew (Nehemiah). The Comparative Anatomy of Trunks, together with an account of their vegetation ground to thereupon, in two parts ..., 1st edition, 1675, title somewhat soiled and torn without loss (relined), nineteen engraved plates at rear, all but two folding and the last shown on a black background, library stamps to title and plates, a few splits to plate folds, some spotting and light browning throughout, brown staining to lower margins of preliminary, hinges cracked, library cloth, slightly rubbed and faded on spine, 8vo (176 x 103mm) Henrey 163; Hunt 362; Osler 2839; Wing G947. (1)
Grew (Nehemiah). The Anatomy of Plants. With an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants, and Several Other Lectures, Read Before the Royal Society, 1st edition, printed for the author by W. Rawlins, 1682, licence leaf before main title, 83 copper-engraved plates, including four double-page, pp. 213-220 mispaginated, erratic signatures, occasional light water stains and spotting, library label, modern calf, a little rubbed, folio. First collected edition of Grew`s earlier works (The Anatomy of Vegetables; An Idea of a Phytological History and The Comparative Anatomy of Trunks), the book is the first textbook on plant anatomy with fine and accurate plates, as observed by Grew using a microscope, and containing the first microscopic description of pollen. Along with Malpighi, Grew is considered the founder of plant anatomy and demonstrates that the normal internal structure of plants are made of `cells`, first observed by Robert Hooke in 1665. Henrey 162; Nissen 758; Norman 946. (1)
Groenveldt (Joannes). A Treatise of the Safe, Internal use of Cantharides in the Practice of Physick ..., Now Translated into English with his Approbation, by John Marten, Chyrurgeon, 1706, faint library stamp, lacks final blank leaf 2A8, some light dampstaining to lower blank margins, library cloth, stained & discoloured, 8vo, together with Irving (Ralph), Experimants on the Red and Quill Peruvian Bark: with Observations on its History, Mode of Operation, and uses, 1785, pp.133-136 repeated in pagination, but text and collation continuous, three pages of publisher`s adverts at rear, very faint library stamp to title, bound with Skeete (Thomas), Experiments and Observations on Quilled and Red Peruvian Bark ..., 1786, half-title present, one leaf of publishers adverts at rear of volume, very faint library stamp to title, library cloth, upper joint cracked, 8vo, plus four others by Thomas Goulard, Daniel Turner, Thomas Thompson and Jeremiah Wainewright (7)
Haller (Albrecht von). Icones anatomicae quibus praecipuae aliquae partes corporis humani delineatae proponuntur & arteriarum potissimum historia continetur, 8 parts in 2 volumes, 1st edition, Gottingen, 1743-56, titles with engraved vignettes printed in red and black, 47 fine engraved plates, some folding, occasional light spotting, library stamps, modern half morocco, folio (460 x 275mm) Although nearly ten engravers prepared plates for the book, the plates are all of high quality and are clear, artistic and exact renditions of their subjects` (Heirs of Hippocrates 881). Accurate and beautiful engravings of the diaphragm, uterus, ovaries, vagina, arteries, with explanatory observations` (G-M 397); Norman 974; Wellcome III, p.198. (2)
Haller (Albrecht von). Icones anatomicae quibus praecipuae aliquae partes corporis humani delineatae proponuntur & arteriarum potissimum historia continetur, 2 volumes (text in 8 parts/atlas), 1756 (but 1745-81), titles printed in red and black with engraved vignettes (general title dated 1756, parts titles dated 1745, 1749, 1753, 1756 & 1781), 47 engraved plates, a few folding, plate 13 with marginal losses, occasional light spotting and ink splashes, library stamps, front hinge of text volume broken, later buckram-backed boards, folio (427 x 265mm) G-M 397; Heirs of Hippocrates 881; Norman 974; Wellcome III, p.198. (2)
Hamilton (Alexander). Outlines of the Theory and Practice of Midwifery, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1784, 6pp., publisher`s list at end, light marginal toning, library stamp, BMI presentation label from Mr Brindley, contemporary calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with A Treatise on the Management of Female Complaints, and of Children in Early Infancy, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1792, one or two marginal stains, library stamp, library cloth, 8vo, with a new edition (1787) and 4th edition (1796) of Outlines of the Theory and Practice of Midwifery (4)
Harris (Walter). De morbis acutis infantum, 2nd edition, 1705, advert. leaf at end, occasional light spotting and water stains, library stamps, previous owner signatures to front endpaper, modern morocco-backed boards, 8vo, together with Astruc (John), A General and Compleat Treatise of all the Diseases Incident to Children, From their Birth to the Age of Fifteen, 1st edition, 1746, a few light spots, library stamp, BMI presentation label from Dr Blackall, modern full brown morocco, 8vo, plus a 3rd edition of Walter Harris`s De Morbis Infantum, 1720. Harris was physician to William and Mary. His book served for nearly a century as a standard work on paediatrics. He anticipated the modern treatment of tetany by using calcium salts in infantile convulsions` (G-M 6321). (3)
Heister (Lorenz). Institutiones chirurgicae, 2 volumes, 1st Latin edition, Amsterdam: Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1739, title printed in red and black, 38 folding engraved plates, library stamps to plates and occasionally throughout, some light dampstaining, library cloth, 4to, together with Compendium anatomicum totam rem anatomicam, 2 parts in one volume, Nuremberg, 1736, engraved portrait frontispiece, nine folding engraved plates, library stamp to plates, Birmingham Medical Institute presentation bookplate from Mr Pemberton, contemporary calf, later library reback, 8vo, plus a copy of the 1741 Latin edition, with nine plates and bound in library cloth, a copy of the 1752 English edition complete with eight folding engraved plates, bound in modern quarter morocco, and a 1777 Latin 12mo unillustrated edition, bound in library cloth (6)
Helmont (Jan Baptista van). Oriatrike or, Physick Refined. The common Errors therein Refuted, and the whole Art Reformed & Rectified: beining a New Rise and Progress of Phylosophy and Medicine, for the Destruction of Diseases and Prolongation of Life..., 1662, engraved frontispiece (with faint library stamp, slightly torn mostly to margins and lined to verso), title with ownership signature E. Hutchinson 1760 and very faint library stamp, strengthened to inner margin, some dust-soiling and light dampstaining, endpapers renewed, early 19th-century mottled sheep, rebacked and board edges worn, folio (292 x 185mm) Wing H1400. (1)
Hill (John). A History of the Materia Medica, 1st edition, 1751, light water stain at front, a few spots, library stamps, library cloth, 4to, together with The Useful Family Herbal..., 2nd edition, 1755, eight engraved plates, occasional light spotting, library stamp, library cloth, 8vo, plus The Useful Family-Herbal, new edition, 1789, six engraved plates only (of eight), T2 repaired, some spotting, previous owner signatures, BMI presentation label from Dr W Newton, modern calf-backed boards, 8vo, with a loose autograph letter from Dr Newton to Dr Gough presenting the book to the BMI (3)
Hillary (William). Observations on the Changes of the Air and the Concomitant Epidemical Diseases, in the Island of Barbadoes, To Which is Added A Treatise on the Putrid Bilious Fever, Commonly Called the Yellow Fever, and Such Other Diseases as are Indigenous or Endemial, in the West India Islands, or in the Torrid Zone, 2nd edition, 1766, some spotting, heavier at front and rear, old dampstaining to gutter margins towards rear, light library stamp to title, presentation bookplate to the BMI from Dr. Blackall to front pastedown, modern quarter calf gilt, 8vo. G-M 1770 (1st edition, 1759): Hillary included good accounts of lead colic and infective hepatitis, and probably the first description of sprue`. (1)
Hippocrates. Octoginta volumina... nunc tandem per M. Fabium Caluum Latinitate donata... nunc primum in lucem aedita..., 1st edition, Rome: Franciscus Minutius Calvus, 1525, 410 leaves, title within ornamental woodcut border (untrimmed, faint library stamp at upper margin), two large woodcut initials, Roman, italic and gothic type, initial spaces with printed guide letters, old marginal pen mark to 2L5v and marginal note to 3M3r, archival closed tear repairs to upper margins of leaves H3-5 not touching text, small tear with loss to lower outer corner of leaf P2 not affecting text, a little spotting and light browning and old dampstaining to upper margins throughout, occasional library stamps to lower margins of text leaf rectos (nine in total), very minor worming to lower margins towards rear and a few trivial single wormholes to upper margins of last few leaves including colophon and final blank, armorial bookplate of Johnstone [probably John Johnstone, 1768-1836, physician and biographer] to front pastedown, 19th-c. morocco gilt, spine darkened, joints tender, slightly rubbed and soiled, folio (280 x 205mm) Although various fragments of Hippocrates` works had been published earlier in Greek and Arabic versions, these eighty works, translated for the first time from the Greek texts into Latin by Marco Fabio Calvo (d. 1527), form the first so-called `complete` Hippocrates. The editio princeps of the Greek texts was published in 1526 [at the Aldine Press]. These eighty texts, the most familiar of which is the Aphorisms, were probably written by a number of authors, but all are in the Hippocratic tradition. This historically important book, along with the massive French translation of Littre in the nineteenth century, must be regarded as the definitive Hippocrates` (Heirs of Hippocrates 10); Adams H567; Durling 2320; Norman 1076; Osler 149; PMM 55; Waller 4495; Wellcome 3177. (1)
Hippocrates. Hippocratis coi Opera quae extant Graece et Latine, veterum codicum collatione restituta, nono ordine in quattuor classes digesta, interpretationis latinae emmendatione, & scholiis illustrata, a Hieron. Mercuriali Foroliviensi, 2 volumes bound in one, Venice, Industria ac sumptibus Iuntarum, 1588, engraved general title with text printed in red and black, printed title to volume 2 in red and black present (lacking printed title to first volume), divisional half-titles, Greek and Latin text in double-column, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, engraved title with careful excisions beside printed title and at foot (probably to remove ownership inscriptions), and repaired with blank paper, light water stain to top margins, and lower outer corners at front of volume, to upper outer corner twoards middle of volume and to fore-margin at rear, final three leaves with minor paper loss to lower outer corner, not affecting text, modern half calf, with small Birmingham Medical Institute name stamp to foot of spine, thick folio. Adams H565. Graesse 3, 281. Brunet 3, 170 edition assez estimee`. Durling 2318. Ebert 9728. Waller 4484. Wellcome 3175. (1)
Hippocrates. Magni Hippocratus medicorum omnium facile principis, opera quae extant: in viii. sectiones ex Erotiani mente distributa, 2 volumes, Geneva: Samuelis Chouet, 1657-62, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, volume one title printed in red and black, double column text in parallel Greek and Latin, comtemp. blind-tooled vellum, some splitting at the joints, missing one spine label, together with Hippocratis Magni Coacae Praenotiones. Opus Admirabile, in tres Libros Tributum. Interprete & Enarratore Ludovico Dureto, Paris, 1658, title printed in red and black with woodcut device, woodcut initials and head and tailpieces, text in Latin and Greek, some light spotting and soiling, contemporary vellum, a little bowed and discoloured, all folio (3)
Hodges (Nathaniel). Loimologia: or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665: with precautionary Directions against the like Contagion..., To which is added, an essay on the different Causes of Pestilential Diseases, and how they become Contagious: with Remarks on the Infection now in France, and the most probable Means to prevent its Spreading here, 2nd edition, 1720, pp.[ii]+iii-vi, 288, folding table at rear, first gathering comprising three leaves (possibly lacking front blank/half-title?), library stamp to title and two stamps to folding table, library cloth, 8vo, (G-M 5121), together with Mead (Richard), A Discourse on the Plague, 9th edition, 1744, title with ownership ink stamp of R. Nesbitt MD to lower blank margin and also faint library stamp, front blank inscribed From the Author`, occasional light spotting, library cloth, 8vo, with Harvey (Gideon), The City Remembrancer: being Historical Narratives of the Great Plague at London, 1665..., volume 1 only (of two), lacks half-title, library stamp to title, library cloth, dampstained at foot of upper board, 8vo. Nathaniel Hodges provided the best record of the Great Plague of 1665. Hodges was a physician to the City of London and medical hero of the great epidemic. The first edition was published in 1672 in Latin and translation into English 1720. (3)
Hunter (John). The Natural History of the Human Teeth: Explaining their Structure, Use, Formation, Growth and Diseases, 1st edition, 1771, half-title, 16 copper-engraved plates, bound with A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Teeth; Intended as a Supplement to the Natural History of Those Parts, 1st edition, 1778, half-title, light toning and scattered spots, library cloth, 4to. The first scientific study of the teeth and is basic to all modern dentistry` (Heirs of Hippocrates 968). This is a detailed study of the mouth, jaws and teeth with exceptionally accurate plates. Hunter correctly understood the growth and development of the jaws and their relation to the muscles of mastication. He coined the terms cuspids, bicuspids, molars and incisors` (G-M 3675-6); Norman 1116. (With Supplement 1778). (1)
Hunter (John). The Natural History of the Human Teeth: Explaining their Structure, Use, Formation, Growth, and Diseases, 2 parts in one, 2nd edition, 1778, half-titles, 16 copper-engraved plates, occasional light spotting and toning, library stamps, library cloth, upper joint splitting, 4to. G-M 3675-76; Norman 1116 (first editions). (1)
Hunter (John). A Treatise on the Venereal Disease, 1st edition, 1786, seven engraved plates after William Bell, burnholes in text of final index leaf, some light spotting, bound with Strictures in Vindication of Some of the Doctrines Misrepresented by Mr. Foot in his two Pamphlets Entitled, Observations upon the New Opinions of John Hunter, in his late Treatise on the Venereal Disease; Including Mr. Pott`s Plagiarisms and Misinformation on the Subject of Pus or Matter, in his Observations on that Disorder of the Corner of the Eye, Commonly Called Fistula Lachrymalis, by T. Brand, Member of the Corporation of Surgeons, London, and Surgeon Extraordinary to his Majesty`s Royal Hospital at Greenwich, 1787, 56pp., light spots, library cloth, spine a little rubbed, 4to. In Hunter`s day the venereal diseases were thought to be due to a single poison. To test this theory Hunter experimented with matter taken from a gonorrhoeal patient who, unknown to Hunter, also had syphilis. Hunter maintained that gonorrhoea and syphilis were caused by a single pathogen. Backed by the weight of his own authority, this experiment retarded the development of knowledge regarding the two diseases. Contrary to legend, however, there is no proof that Hunter actually inoculated himself with venereal disease. The hard (`Hunterian`) chancre eponymizes Hunter. This work also makes a major contribution to urological surgery` (G-M 2377). The book was the first to be published from Hunter`s private press at his house on Castle Street, established to prevent unauthorised editions of his works. This book is one of 1000 copies printed. Norman 1117. (1)
Hunter (William). An Anatomical Description of the Human Gravid Uterus and its Contents, [edited by Matthew Baillie], 1st. edition, 1794, 88pp., half-title, a few light spots, library stamp, previous owner signature of W. Sanders to title, library cloth, 4to. Hunter`s nephew, Matthew Baillie found an uncompleted manuscript several years after Hunter`s death and discovered that it was intended to be the text for the atlas [i.e. Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata, 1774]. In the Advertisement Baillie explains that he is publishing the work for the first time, with only a few changes and remarks which he felt necessary for completeness` (Heirs of Hippocrates 945); G-M 6157.1. (1)
Ingen-Housz (John). Experiments Upon Vegetables, Discovering their Great Power of Purifying the Common Air in the Sun-Shine, and of Injuring it in the Shade and at Night. To Which is Joined, a New Method of Examining the Accurate Degree of Salubrity of the Atmosphere, 1st edition, 1779, folding engraved plate (trimmed at lower margin), bound with Observations on the Poisonous Vegetables Which are Either Indigenous in Great Britain, or Cultivated for Ornament, by Bradford Wilmer, 1st edition, 1781, a few light spots, library stamps, library cloth, 8vo. Ingen-Housz showed that the green parts of plants, when exposed to light, fix the free carbon dioxide of the atmosphere, but that in darkness plants have no such power. Thus he proved that animal life is dependent ultimately on plant life, a discovery of fundamental importance in the economy of the world of living things` (G-M 103); Henrey 866; Norman 1141. (1)
Ingrassia (Giovanni Filippo ). De tumoribus praeter naturam tomus primus. In quo generatim tumorum omnium praeternaturalium species: praesertimque earum nomina & definitiones, atque etiam causae, multaque generalia declarantur. Graecique & Latini, & Arabes, quatenus ad haec ipsa pertinet, enucleantur. Occasione sumpta ab Avicennae verbis, Arabum Medicorum Principis, Tertia Fen Quarti Libri, Tractatu Primo ..., volume 1 [all published],Naples, Matthaeus Cancer, 1553, title with large woodcut coat of arms, full-page engraved portrait of the author, two woodcut medallions at head of first leaf of dedication, woodcut initials, text complete but erractically bound, title-page to the commentary by Charerius without woodcut border, leaf Q6 stained and damaged with some loss (partially repaired), and preceeding leaf with small tear to lower margin, repaired, affecting a few letters, bound with Ibn Serapion (Yuhanna, and others), In hoc volumine continentur: Insignium Medicorum, Joan. Serapionis Arabis De Simplicibus Medicinis opus praeclarum & ingens. Averrois Arabis, De eisdem liber eximius. Rasis filii Zachariae, De eisdem opusculum perutile. Incerti item autoris De Centaureo libellus hactenus Galeno inscriptus. Dictionum Arabicarum iuxta atque Latinarum index valde necessarius, Strasbourg, Georg Ulricher of Andlau, 1531, title with small printer`s woodcut device, woodcut initials, printer`s woodcut device to verso of final leaf, some light browning, contemporary blind-panelled and decorated full vellum, rubbed and soiled with some wear to extremities, lacking clasps, with faint gilt library stamp to foot of spine, folio. Adams I119. Waller 5065. Wellcome 3416. For the second work: Choulant-Frank, page 372. Wellcome 5936. Provenance: Ex libris Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (1573-1651), with his bookplate engraved in 1630 by Raphael Sadeler to front pastedown. His library was formerly known as the Munchner Hofbibliothek, and is now the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. With additonal smaller bookplate of the Earl of Munster to upper outer corner of the front pastedown, and small presentation label at foot from Oliver Pemberton to the Birmingham Medical Institute. (1)
Innes (John). Eight Anatomical Tables of a Human Body; containing the Principal Parts of the Skeletons and Muscles represented in the large Tables of Albinus, Edinburgh: Balfour & Smellie, 1776, eight engraved plates (with offsetting), faint library stamps to title and plates, one leaf with small tear to foremargin, library cloth, split to head of upper hinge, 4to(in 2`s), together with Bidloo (Govard), Opera omnia anatomico-chirurgica, Leiden, 1715, 19 full-page plates only (of 21) plus 9 engravings to the text, library stamp to title and plates, library cloth, 4to, and Harwood (Sir Busick), A Synopsis of a Course of Lectures on Anatomy and Physiology, 3rd edition, Cambridge, 1792, each leaf with interspersed blank, bound with a late 18th century catalogue of medical samples titled `A Descriptive Catalogue, &c. Preparations in Spirits`, 62 pp., some light dampstaining, library cloth, 8vo, plus Bromfield (William), Syllabus anatomicus generalem humani corporis partium ideam comprehendens, 1736, each leaf with interspersed blank, light foxing, 4to, later library cloth, 4to. 1) Russell 460; 3) Russell 390. The catalogue of specimens is scarce and is believed to be an early catalogue of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, containing a list of John Sheldon`s preparations. (4)
Jenner (Edward). An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, a Disease Discovered in some of the Western Counties of England, Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox, 1st edition, printed for the author, 1798, half-title, four hand-finished engraved plates, printed in sanguine by William Skelton (two plates with engraver`s name partly cropped), errata leaf at end, light vertical crease and a few minor spots, faint library stamps to title and plates, modern half pigskin over cloth, spine a little rubbed with tears at ends, 4to (275 x 210mm) A good copy of One of the greatest triumphs in the history of medicine` (G-M 5423). Although the practice of inoculating patients with mild forms of smallpox taken from human pustules was known in India, China and Turkey, and brought to England by Lady Mary Wortley (wife of the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire) in 1718 and termed variolation`, this was a dangerous and unreliable preventive method. Edward Jenner (1749-1823), a pupil of John Hunter and a general practitioner in Berkeley, Gloucestershire was aware of the west country observation that generally milkmaids, who were infected with cowpox, a mild disease similar to smallpox, did not contract smallpox. Although others before had successfully inoculated patients with cowpox to prevent smallpox, Jenner conducted his first experiment on 14 May, 1796 on a country boy, James Phipps, injecting lymph matter into him from a cowpox- infected milkmaid. Six weeks later he injected the boy with smallpox, and no infection followed. After further successful inoculations, and initial scepticism by the medical establishment, vaccination was adopted wholeheartedly in Britain and worldwide. Jenner had started one of the greatest practical advances in preventive medicine and today there are inoculations which confer immunity against scarlet fever, typhoid fever, diphtheria, whooping-cough and tetanus, as well as some of the old-age plagues such as bubonic plague, cholera and yellow fever` (PMM 250); Le Fanu 8; Norman 1162; Wellcome III, p.351. (1)
John of Gaddesden. Rosa Anglica practica medicine a capite ad pedes noviter impressa & per que diligentissime emendata, 2nd edition, Venice: Impressa mandato & expensis heredum Octaviani Scoti, per Bonetum Locatellum, 1502, 135 leaves, double column, sixty-five lines, white on black five-line (and one fourteen-line) woodcut initials, white on black printer`s woodcut device beneath colophon, lacks final blank, scattered minor old underscoring and marginalia including author`s name identified on title, some spotting and dust-soiling at front and rear, old and mostly light dampstaining to lower and outer margins touching text throughout, heaviest in quires b to e, neat closed tear to gutter margin of a2 touching letterpress of Table without loss, some marginal browning and one small tear with loss to foremargin of final leaf, British Museum and Duplicate for Sale 1769` ink stamps beneath title letterpress and beneath colophon at rear, modern half morocco gilt over marbled boards (date imprint incorrectly stamped as 1516), folio (295 x 205mm) This was the first printed medical book written by an Englishman. Durling 2607; G-M 2191 (1st edition); Wellcome 2486; Heirs of Hippocrates 105. John of Gaddesden (c. 1280-1361), took his name from Little or Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire. He was court physician to Edward II and was supposedly the inspiration for Chaucer`s `Doctour of Physik` in The Canterbury Tales. Gaddesden left a considerable reputation. He was the first major medical scholar to have been trained wholly in England, and the only Oxford-trained medieval physician to achieve recognition on the continent. His Rosa anglica was a distillation of the works of more than forty-six medical authorities, ancient and recent, although it ignored the near contemporary works from the northern Italian universities. In it Gaddesden claims to have saved the king`s son (presumably either Thomas or Edmund, sons of Edward I from his second marriage) from smallpox by wrapping him in scarlet cloth in a bed with red hangings. He also, unusually, admits to practising the arts of the surgeon and barber-surgeon as well as the physician, proclaiming his skills at setting bones, letting blood, drawing teeth, and even cutting corns and killing lice. Money was probably a factor: Gaddesden boasts of his fees, suggests expensive remedies for the rich and cheap ones for the poor, and notes that mental illnesses are seldom lucrative for the physician. Gaddesden chose the title because the five books of the Rosa recalled the five sepals of the rose; it also echoed the Lilium medicine of Bernard de Gordon. Gaddesden claims that, just as a rose excels every other flower, so the Rosa excels all previous medical works, and that poor surgeons and physicians can substitute it for many other books. Matthaeus Sylvaticus mentioned Gaddesden in his Pandectae (1317), and although the illustrious Montpellier surgeon, Guy de Chauliac, sniffed in 1363 that the Rosa was a foolish compendium of stale material, Chaucer included Gaddesden with Galen, Avicenna, and the other great medical authorities. Numerous Latin copies of the Rosa survive and it was partially translated into Middle English and Irish in the fifteenth century. The first printed edition appeared at Pavia in 1492; three more followed, the first two at Venice and the third at Augsburg, in 1502, 1516, and 1595 respectively. The only modern English translation of the Rosa, published in 1929, was made from an Irish version of the fifteenth century` (DNB). This is the oldest book in The Birmingham Medical Institute`s Collection. This edition is considered to display superior printing to that of the first edition and this attractive copy appears to be the first to be offered at auction for over thirty years. (1)
Jones (John). The Mysteries of Opium Reveal`d by Dr. John Jones, Chancellor of Landaff, a Member of the College of Physicians in London..., who, I. Gives an account of the name, make, choice, effects, &c. of opium. II. Proves all former opinions of its operation to be meer Chimera`s. III. Demonstrates what its true cause is... IV. Shews its noxious principle, and how to separate it, thereby rendering it a safe and noble Panacea, whereof, V. He shews the palliative and curative use, 1701, licence leaf facing title, folding table entitled `A Table of the Doses of the Best and Safest Opiates`, bound without first blank leaf, library stamp to title and folding table, some light browning and occasional spotting, library cloth, 8vo. Wellcome III, p.363. (1)
Jorden (Edward). A Discourse of Natural Bathes, and Mineral Waters... , and in this Fourth Edition, a Quaere Concerning Drinking Bathe-Water at Bathe, is Resolved, to Which is Added, an Appendix Concerning Bathe... , by Thomas Guidot[t], three parts in one volume, 1673, folding table, separate titles and pagination to second and third parts, some spotting and occasional light old dampstaining, white library cloth with leather label to spine, soiled, 8vo, together with Witty (Robert). Scarbrough Spaw, or a Description of the Nature and Vertues of the Spaw at Scarbrough in Yorkshire, 1st edition, 1660, lacks imprimatur at front and final blank, errata to final leaf recto, old inscription and faint library stamp to title, a little browning, library cloth, slightly dampstained, small 8vo. Wing J1075 & W3231. (2)
Kirkland (Thomas). A Commentary on Apoplectic and Paralytic Affections. And on Diseases Connected With the Subject, 1st edition, 1792, half-title (dust-soiled), occasional contemporary annotation, library stamps, modern morocco-backed boards, 8vo, together with Andree (John), Cases of the Epilepsy, Hysteric Fits, and St. Vitus`s Dance, With the Process of Cure: Interspersed with Pracitcal Observations. To Which are Added, Cases pf the Bite of a Mad Dog, and a Method that has been found Successful, 2nd edition, 1753, light marginal water stains and toning, library stamp, previous owner signature of John Freer to title, library cloth, a little rubbed and stained, 8vo, plus White (Thomas), A Treatise on the Struma, or Scrofula, Commonly Called The King`s Evil..., 3rd edition, 1794, light spotting, library stamp, presentation copy, inscribed to title: `Doctor Sims, from the author`, library cloth, 8vo, with George Cheyne`s The English Malady: Or, a Treatise of Nervous Diseases of all Kinds..., 4th edition, 1734 (4)
Lancisi (Giovanni Maria). Opera quae hactenus prodierunt omnia, 4 volumes, Rome, 1745, folding engraved portrait frontispiece, nine folding engraved plates, faint library stamps to title and plates, volume two without half-title, non-matching half morocco library bindings, 4to, together with Lancisi (Giovanni Maria), Dissertatio historica de bovilla peste, ex campaniae sinibus anno MDCCXIII latio importata, Rome: Joannis Mariae Salvioni, 1715, half-title, title printed in red and black, scattered light foxing, bookplate of Edward Johnstone (1757-1851) to verso of half-title, library stamp to title and sporadically throughout, library cloth, both 4to, plus Gibson (William), The Farrier`s New Guide, 1st edition, 1720, folding engraved frontispiece bound in after preliminary leaves (with loss to outer edge), seven engraved plates, title relaid and with crossed out owners name, contemporary panelled calf, crude later reback, 8vo. 1)Lancisi was physician to Pope Clement XI and was the first to describe cardiac syphilis, as well as being a noted epidemiologist. This collected edition includes his celebrated treatise on the heart De motu cordis et aneurysmatibus` which is not present in the 1718 edition. G-M 71 (1718 edition). 2) First edition of a rare work on the cattle plague and an epidemic among horses that struck Rome in 1712. (6)
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Leeuwenhoek (Antoni van). Arcana naturae detecta [bound with] Continuatio, 2 volumes in one, Delft: Henrik van Krooneveld, 1695-97, engraved portrait frontispiece, lacks additional engraved title to first work, 27 and 7 engraved plates respectively (correct), many folding, plate facing 3S4 split in two along fold, a few closed marginal tears, woodcut initals and engraved illustrations to text in first work, library stamps to titles and plates, some light browning and old dampstaining, library cloth, rubbed, a little wear to head of spine, 4to (187 x 153mm) Dobell, A. van Leeuwenhoek, 25 & 26; Norman 1319 & 1321; Waller 10877 & 10880. First work PMM 166. (1)
Lind (James). A Treatise on the Scurvy. In Three Parts. Containing an Inquiry into the Nature, Causes, and the Cure, of that Disease. Together with a Critical and Chronological View of what has been Published on the Subject, 2nd edition Corrected, with Additions and Improvements, 1757, one or two light spots, library stamp, library cloth, 8vo. Pioneering work on scurvy by naval physician James Lind (1716-94), who conducted the first deliberately planned controlled therapeutic trial ever undertaken` (G-M 3713). Aboard H.M.S. Salisbury in 1747, he divided twelve scorbutic sailors into pairs, all on identical diets, but additionally the first pair given a daily quart of cider, the second pair twenty-five drops of vitriol, the third pair six spoonfuls of vinegar, the fourth pair half a pint of seawater, the fifth pair two oranges and a lemon, the sixth pair a paste mixed with barley-water. Needless to say only the fifth pair, having run out of fruit after six days, recovered sufficiently to be fit for duty. Although it was known for some time that citrus fruit had an antiscorbutic effect, Lind, although still believing scurvy was the result of putrefaction, was the first to conclude that they were the most effective remedy. As a result of adopting Lind`s recommendations, James Cook lost only one man to the disease on his second voyage 1768-71 and after lemon juice was issued by the Royal Navy in 1795, scurvy soon disappeared. Heirs of Hippocrates 936; Norman 1354. (1)
Lind (James). An Essay on the Most Effectual Means of Preserving the Health of Seamen, in the Royal Navy. Containing Directions Proper for all those who Undertake long Voyages at Sea, or Reside in Unhealthy Situations. With Cautions Necessary for the Preservation of such Persons as Attend the Sick in Fevers, 2nd edition, Improved and Enlarged, 1762, half-title, errata leaf at end, a few light spots, library stamp, BMI presentation label from Dr Blackall, recent full blindstamped calf by Grange, 8vo, together with Blane (Gilbert), Observations on the Diseases of Seamen, 2nd edition, 1789, three folding letterpress tables, (lacking A1 corrected second state title), light spotting, library stamp, excised signature of W.F. Wade to front pastedown, contemporary boards, rebacked, 8vo, with Francis Milman`s An Enquiry into the Source from Whence the Symptoms of the Scurvy and of Putrid Fevers Arise, 1782 [bound with Dr. Milman`s Animadversions on the Nature and on the Cure of the Dropsy, Translated from the Latin into English by F. Swediaur, 1786] (3)
Malpighi (Marcello). Consultationum medicinalium centuria prima, quam in gratiam clinicorum evulgat Hieronymus Gaspari, Padua: Tipografia del Seminario, 1713, 184pp., lacks final blank(?), faint library stamp to title, some spotting and light browning, contemporary vellum, soiled, 4to (215 x 160mm) With the same title-page and imprint as the first edition of the same year, but with text reset and errata corrected. (1)
Mead (Richard). A Discourse on the Small Pox and Measles, 1748, scattered light foxing, faint library stamp to title, owner`s name to free endpaper `Thomas Freer, Birmingham, October 6 1831`, library cloth, 8vo, together with a copy of the 2nd edition of the same work (1755), plus Kirkpatrick (James), The Analysis of Innoculation...with an Occasional Consideration of the Most Remarkable Appearances in the Small Pox, 1st edition, 1754, library stamps to title and five other pages, first and last few leaves toned and spotted, library cloth, 8vo, together with Walker (Robert), An Inquiry into the Small-Pox Medical and Political, 1790, faint library stamp to title, library cloth, 8vo, plus others related by Black, Dimsdale, Hillary, Holland and Lobb (9)
Mercuriale (Girolamo). Medicina practica, seu de cognoscendis, discernendis, & curandis, omnibus humani corporis affectibus, earumque causis indagandis, Frankfurt: In officina Joannis Theobaldi Schonwetteri, 1st edition, 1601, woodcut printer`s device to title, offsetting and some light foxing, contemporary owners name `David Bolton` to endpaper and some ink notes to title, faint library stamp to title, contemporary full vellum, several puncture marks to lower cover, folio. Extremely scarce first edition of this work. (1)
Monro (Alexander, primus). Traite d`osteologie, 2 volumes in one, 1st edition in French, Paris: Guillaume Cavelier, 1759, engraved allegorical frontispiece to volume 1, engraved vignettes on title-pages, engraved and head and tail-pieces, sixty-two engraved plates including thirty-one in outline, light library stamp to title and plates, some spotting and soiling, occasional browning and marginal dampstaining, contemporary sheep gilt, worn on joints and some loss to extremities, large folio (545 x 410mm) This translation by Jean Joseph Sue (Primus) is a most sumptuous production, completely overshadowing the original. Its only counterpart is Cheselden`s Osteographia. Russell 590; Blake 309; Choulant-Frank p. 324. It has been suggested by Roberts & Tomlinson (pp. 438-45) that the translation and supervision of the illustrations may have been by Marie-Genevieve-Charlotte Thiroux d`Arconville and so possibly making this the first anatomical work produced by a woman. (1)
Monro (Alexander, secundus). The Structure and Physiology of Fishes Explained, and Compared with those of Man and Other Animals, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1785, 49 engraved plates on 43 sheets only (lacking plate I), a few repaired to verso, some light spotting, modern burgundy half morocco, folio (1)
Monro (Donald). An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British Military Hospitals in Germany, From January 1761 to the Return of the Troops to England in March 1763. To which is Added, an Essay on the Means of Preserving the Health of Soldiers, and Conducting Military Hospitals, 1st edition, 1764, occasional spotting, library stamp, library cloth, 8vo, together with Swieten (Geerard, Baron van), A Short Account of the Most Common Diseases Incident to Armies. With a Method of Cure. Translated from the Orginal of Baron Van Swieten, 1762, 110pp., library stamps, previous owner signature of Johnston to title, library cloth, 12mo, plus Hunter (John), Observations on the Diseases of the Army in Jamaica; And on the Best Means of Preserving the Health of Europeans in that Climate, 2nd edition, 1796, a few light spots, library stamp, library cloth, 8vo, with Donal Monro`s Observations on the Means of Preserving the Health of Soldiers and of Conduction Military Hospitals, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, 1780, Geerard van Swieten`s Description Abbregee des Maladies qui Regnent le Plus Communement dans les Armees, 1761 and John Pringle`s Observations on the Diseases of the Army, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th & 7th editions, 1761-75 (11)
Morgagni (Giovanni Battista). De sedibus, et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis libriquinque, 2 volumes in one, Venice: Ex typographia Remondiniana, 1761, engraved portrait frontispiece, first title in red and black, library stamps to half-title, portrait and a few lower margins, some spotting, light old dampstaining to early leaves, Ii3 of volume 1 torn with loss to blank area of outer and lower margins, a few old ink marginal annotations, underscoring and marks, all possibly in the hand of James Johnstone and with approx. seventy leaves of manuscript medical notes bound at rear, mostly taken from late 18th-c. medical and related works and the majority seemingly in the hand of James Johnstone, but with at least one other hand present, remains of armorial Johnstone family bookplate to front pastedown and remains of original presentation inscription from James to John Johnstone dated 1834 pasted above and below, modern half calf gilt, slightly rubbed, folio (365 x 230mm) Published when he was seventy-nine years of age, [De Sedibus] had been years in preparation, and constitutes a foundation of modern pathological anatomy. Vast in scope, it is one of the most fundamentally important works in the history of medicine. In it he reports in precise and exhaustive detail his findings in nearly seven hundred autopsy dissections, introducing and insisting on the concept that diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of disease must be based on an exact understanding of the pathologic changes in the anatomic structures. It put the final rout to the old humoral pathology. Morgagni`s contribution to the understanding of disease may well rank with the contributions of Vesalius in anatomy and Harvey in physiology` (Heirs of Hippocrates 792). G-M 2276; Dibner, Heralds of Science, 125; Norman 1547; PMM 206. (1)
Moseley (Benjamin). A Treatise on Tropical Diseases; And on the Climate of the West-Indies, 1st edition, 1787, half-title, errata slip, a few light spots, library stamp to title, library cloth, upper cover detached, 8vo, together with Moseley (Benjamin), A Treatise on Tropical Diseases; On Military Operations; And on the Climate of the West-Indies, 3rd edition, 1795, half-title, light water stain and spotting, library stamp, library cloth, 8vo, plus Lind (James), An Essay on Diseases Incidental to Europeans in Hot Climates. With the Method of Preventing their Fatal Consequences, 4th edition, 1788, light spotting, library stamp, library cloth, 8vo (3)
Nicholls (Francis). De anima medica praelectio ex lumleii et caldwadi instituto, in theatro collegii regalis medicorum Londinensium, ad socios habita, die december 16 anno 1748, editio altera, notis amplioribus aucta, 3rd edition, 1773, eleven engraved plates, one coloured in sanguine, some light offsetting and spotting, library stamps, previous owner inscription of Thomas Freer, Birmingham to front endpaper, library cloth, 4to. Cornish physician Francis (or Frank) Nicholls (1699-1778) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1728, and demonstrated the formation of chronic aneurysm in arteries, as well as observing that arteries were supplied with nerves thereby regulating blood pressure. The above work is the first illustrated edition of Nicholls` inaugural Lumleian lecture, at the Royal College of Physicians, given in 1748/49. (1)
Nihell (James). New and Extraordinary Observations Concerning the Prediction of Various Crises by the Pulse, Independent of the Critical Signs Delivered by the Ancients; Made, First by Dr. Don Francisco Solano de Luque, Late of the City of Antequera in Spain; And Subsequently by Several Other Physicians..., 1st edition, 1741, light dust-stains, library stamps, modern morocco-backed boards, 8vo, together with Bordeu (Theophile de), Inquiries Concerning the Varieties of the Pulse, and the Particular Crisis each more Especially Indicates, Written Originally in French, 1764, some light spotting, library stamp, library cloth, 8vo, plus Falconer (William), Observations Respecting the Pulse: Intended to Point Out with Greater Certainty, the Indications which it Signifies, Especially in Feverish Complaints, 1st edition, 1796, half-title, pp.27-28 repaired, a few spots, library stamp, library cloth, chipped at spine head, 8vo (3)
O`Halloran (Sylvester). A Complete Treatise on Gangrene and Sphacelus, with a New Method of Amputation, 1st London edition, printed for Paul Vallant, 1765, light browning throughout, library stamp to title, lacks final blank, library cloth, rubbed on joints, together with Morton (Richard), Phthisiologia: or, a Treatise of Consumptions, 2nd edition, 1700, engraved portrait frontispiece, faint library stamp and neat owner`s name to title, library cloth, 8vo, plus Hamilton (Robert), Observations on Scrophulous Affections, with Remarks on Schirrus, Cancer, and Rachitis, 1791, single engraved plate, library stamps to title and occasionally throughout, untrimmed, modern library quarter calf, all 8vo, plus three others. 1) Sylvester O`Halloran (1728-1807) was an Irish surgeon practising for the most part in Limerick. The book was first published in the same year by the author in Limerick, containing a subscribers` list, an appendix and errata leaf and second dedication. (6)
Oliver (William). A Practical Essay on Fevers. Containing Remarks on the Hot and Cool Methods of their Cure, 1st edition, 1704, library cloth, 12mo, together with Bellini (Lorenzo), A Mechanical Account of Fevers, 1st edition, 1720, library cloth, 8vo, and Zimmerman (John George), A Treatise on the Dysentery: with a Description of the Epidemic Dysentary that Happened in Switzerland in the Year 1765, Translated by C.R. Hopson, 1771, 19th century library cloth, 8vo, plus Turner (Daniel), A Discourse Concerning Fevers. In Two Letters, 3rd edition, 1739, engraved portrait frontispiece, some light dampstaining, library cloth, 8vo, and Glass (Thomas), Commentarii duodecim de febribus ad hippocratis disciplinan accommodati, 1742, faint library stamp to title, 19th century library cloth, 8vo, and Degner (Johann Hartmann), Historia medica de dysenteria biblioso-contagiosa, Utrecht, 1754, title in red and black, library cloth, 8vo, plus five editions of John Huxham`s Essay on Fevers (11)
Ould (Sir Fielding). A Treatise of Midwifery. In Three Parts, 1st London edition, 1748, two engraved plates, occasional light water stains, library stamps, modern morooco-backed boards, 8vo, together with Chapman (Edmund), A Treatise on the Improvement of Midwifery, Chiefly with Regard to the Operation. To which are Added Fifty-Seven Cases, Selected from Upwards of Twenty-Seven Years Practice, 2nd edition, 1735, two engraved plates, 6pp. publisher`s list at end, a few spots, library stamp, contemporary mottled calf, spine rubbed, 8vo, plus Astruc (Jean), A Treatise on the Diseases of Women... Translated from the French Original, 3 volumes, 1st edition in English, 1762-67, two folding engraved plates, light water stains and spotting, library stamps, BMI presentation label from Dr Smallwood Savage, volumes I & II contemporary calf (rebacked), volume III library cloth, 8vo, with three others: John Friend`s Emmenologia, Translated into English by Thomas Dale, 2nd edition, 1752, Edmund Chapman`s A Treatise on the Improvement of Midwifery, 3rd edition, 1759 and Henry Daventer`s The Art of Midwifery Improv`d, 4th edition, 1746 (8)
Pare (Ambroise). The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey Translated out of Latine and compared with the French by Tho. Johnson. Whereunto are added three Tractates out of Adrianus Spigelius of the Veines, Arteries, & Nerves, with large Figures, 2 parts in one volume, 2nd edition, 1649, engraved title (browned), final section with separate title, two folding full-page woodcut plates only (of three) depicting the vascular system, numerous woodcut illustrations to text, library stamps to title and full-page plates, some old smudges and marks, occasional inoffensive marginalia, light dampstaining to final portion, early 19th century full sheep, upper joint cracked, folio. Krivatsy 8604; Waller 7148; Wing p349. (1) A few crude tears and repairs with occasional slight text loss. Sold with all faults.
Paul of Aegina. Libri Septem. In principio singulorum librorum omnia indicantur, quae in eo libro continentur, 1st edition, Venice: Aldus, 1528, title with woodcut Aldine device, and to final blank verso, preliminary leaves in Latin, main text (pp. 1-138) in Greek italic, occasional Latin annotation, light mainly marginal water stains, a few marginal wormtracks and holes, library stamps to title and lower margins, final blank with repaired tear, library cloth, folio. Paul of Aegina (c. 625-c. 690) was an Alexandrian physician and his magnus opus Libri Septem contained most western medical knowledge during his time. He much influenced the great Persian physician Al-Razi (Rhazes) and other Islamic surgeons including Abu al-Qasim. Paulus Aegineta was the most important physician of his day and a skilful surgeon. He gave orginal descriptions of lithotomy, trephining, tonsillectomy, paracentesis and amputation of the breast; the first clear description of the effects of lead poisoning also comes from him. His work first appeared in Greek from the famous Aldine Press in Venice in 1528, edited by F. Torresani (Asulanus)` (G-M 36); Adams 488. (1)
Paul of Aegina. Medicinae totius enchiridion, septem libris universam..., Albano Torino ... interprete, Basel: Oporinus, 1551, some dust-soiling to first few leaves, light old dampstain to lower margin of first leaves and upper margin of final leaves, faint library stamp to title (short closed tear at foot repaired to verso), contemporary vellum, slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo. Durling 3557; Wellcome 4865. (1)
Perfect (William). Select Cases in the Different Species of Insanity, Lunacy, or Madness, With the Modes of Practice as Adopted in the Treatment of Each, 1st edition, Rochester, 1787, half-title, one or two light spots, library cloth, upper joint splitting, 8vo. Revised and enlarged edition of Perfect`s Methods of Cure, in Some Particular Cases of Insanity (1778) and the first collection of psychiatric case studies. Norman 1682. (1)
Perrault (Claude). Description anatomique d`un cameleon, d`un castor, d`un dromadaire, d`un ovrs, et d`une gazelle, 1st edition, Paris, 1669, title with woodcut device, five folding engraved plates by Sebastien LeClerk (a few tears and repairs to verso), occasional soiling and light spotting, library stamps, library cloth, small 4to. Second work on comparative anatomy by the `Parisians`, a group of members of the Academie Royale des Sciences, led by Perrault including Jean Pecquet, Guichard Joseph Duverney and Moyse Charas. Recording their methods of investigation and results and begining with dissections of a thresher shark and a lion from the royal menagerie, the team set about debunking popular myths such as salamanders living in fire and chameleons subsisting on air. Nissen ZBI 3122; Norman 1686. (1)
Perry (Charles). A Mechanical Account and Explication of the Hysteric Passion, Under all its Various Symptoms and Appearances. And Likewise of all such other Diseases as are Peculiarly Incident to the Sex, 1st edition, 1755, woodcut headpieces and initials, a few spots, library stamps, library cloth, 8vo, together with Rowley (William), A Treatise on Female, Nervous, Hysterical, Hypochondriacal, Billous, Convulsive Diseases; Apoplexy and Palsy; With Thoughts on Madness, Suicide &c. In Which the Principal Disorders are Explained from Anatomical Facts, and the Treatment Formed on Several New Principles, 1st edition, 1788, half-title, B1 cancel, scattered light spotting, library stamp, library cloth, 8vo, plus Pierre Pomme`s Traite des Affections Vaporeuses des Deux Sexes, 1st edition, 1763 & 3rd edition, 1767 (4)
Platter (Felix). Observationum, in hominis affectibus plerisque corpori & animo.... Basel: Ludwig Konig, 1641, several library stamps, some light browning, contemporary vellum, soiled and slightly split at head of upper joint, together with a 1680 edition of the same work from the same publisher, browning throughout, library cloth, both 8vo, plus Albertus Magnus, De secretis mulierum item..., Amsterdam, 1648, engraved title (library stamps to recto and verso), some browning, contemporary vellum, soiled, plus [Digby, Kenelm & Others], Theatrum sympatheticum, in quo sympathiae actiones variae... exhibentur, & mechanice, physice, mathematice, chimice & medice occasione pulveris sympathetici ita quidem elucidantur..., editio altera, priori emendatior, Amsterdam, 1661, browning throughout, library cloth, both 12mo, plus Nicolas Chesneau`s Observationum (Paris, 1672), and three others by Daniel Sennert (Amsterdam, 1644), Hippocrates (Geneva, 1675) and Celsus (Amsterdam, 1687) Platter`s work contains the first known case of death from hypertrophy of the thymus, in an infant (G-M 3789); and an account of meningioma (G-M 4511.1). (8)
Porterfield (William). A Treatise on the Eye, the Manner and Phaenomena of Vision, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1759, eight folding engraved plates, some light toning and spotting, library stamps, library cloth, 8vo. Porterfield was a Professor of the Institutes and Practice of Medicine at Edinburgh from 1724-26. His book included many original observations. It was the first important British work on the anatomy and physiology of the eye` (G-M 1484.2). An authority on the eye, he devised the first optometer and possibly gave the first medical account of his experiences after having a leg amputated. (2)
Priestley (Joseph). The History and Present State of Electricity, with original experiments, 2 volumes, 3rd edition, corrected and enlarged, C. Bathurst and others, 1775, eight folding engraved plates, publisher`s catalogue and index at rear of volume 2, faint library stamp to titles and plates, some spotting and dust-soiling, light old dampstaining to upper margins, contemporary ownership signature of Stephen Hemsted of Ilsley, Berkshire, to both titles, Birmingham Medical Institute book labels to endpapers, library cloth, slightly darkened and soiled, nick to lower joint of volume 2, 8vo (201 x 125mm) Crook S/483. (2)
Ramazzini (Bernardino). De morbis artificum diatriba, 2nd edition, Utrecht, 1703, title with woodcut device, some water stains, library stamp, library cloth, dampstains to top margins, 8vo, together with A Dissertation on Endemial Diseases; Or, Those Disorders which Arise from Particular Climates, Situations and Methods of Living; Together with a Treatise on the Diseases of Tradesmen, to which ther are Subject by their Particular Callings. With a Method of Avoiding and Treating them. The First by the Celebrated Frederick Hoffman... the Second by Bern. Ramazini, Newly Translated, with a Preface and an Appendix by Dr. James, 1st edition, 1746, 296pp., plus Index, and Supplement on the Diseases of Printers pp.398-432 bound at end, lacking one leaf of publisher`s list, one or two light spots, library stamp, library cloth, dampstains, 8vo, plus Health Preserved, in Two Treatises. I. On the Diseases of Artificers, which by their Particular they are Most Liable to. With the Method of Avoiding them, and their Cure. By Bern. Ramazini... II. On those Distempers, which Arise from Particular Climates and Methods of Life... by Frederick Hoffman, Translated and Enlarged, with an Appendix by R. James, 2nd edition, 1750, final leaf with marginal repair, light water stains, library stamps, modern calf, edges slightly rubbed, 8vo. First work is the second edition by the father of industrial hygiene`. Ramazzini methodically collected all this material [from Helmont and Paracelsus on diseases of miners] and added the results of his own investigations into the diseases of manual workers and the relation between their occupations and diseases, besides drawing on the observations of others who had direct experience of such cases. He described miner`s phthisis, lead-poisoning of potters, eye-trouble of gilders, printers and other artisans, and included diseases peculiar to doctors` (PMM 170); G-M 2121; Norman 1776. (3)
Ramazzini (Bernardino). Opera Omnia, medica & physiologica, Geneva, 1718, engraved portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black, four engraved plates (two folding), occasional ligyht spotting, library stamps, cut signature of J. Johnstone to front pastedown, modern half calf, 4to, together with Opera Omnia, Medica & Physiologica, 3rd edition, 1718, title printed in red and black, four engraved plates (two folding), a few light spots, library stamps, library cloth, 4to (2)
Riviere (Lazare). The Compleat Practice of Physick in Eighteen Several Books. Wherein is plainly set forth, The Nature, Differences, Diagnostick, and Prognostick Signs. Together with the Cure of all Diseases in the Body of Man, 1655, half-title present, lacking engraved frontispiece, faint library stamp to title, modern library cloth gilt, folio, together with Praxis medica, editio postrema emendatior, 2 volumes in one, The Hague: Adriaan Vlacq, 1651, half-title present, lacking engraved frontispiece, faint library stamp to title, modern library cloth gilt, folio, together with ^TPraxis medica, editio postrema emendatior, 2 volumes in one, The Hague: Adriaan Vlacq, 1651, ^Dlacks additional engraved title, bound with Methodus curandarum febrium, The Hague, 1651, occasional light browning, dampstaining towards rear of volume, white library cloth, soiled, 8vo, together with Craanen (Theodorus), Lumen rationale medicum, hoc est praxis medica reformata sive annotationes in Praxin Henrici Regii, accedit examen institutum in Dan. Sennerti..., 2 parts in one volume, Middelburg: J. de Reede, 1686, additional engraved title-page, Sennert`s Examen institutum with separate title-page and pagination, index at rear, faint library stamp to printed title-page, presentation bookplate to BMI from Dr Blackall tipped in at front, earlier ownership signature of N. (?)Munckley dated 1745, contemporary vellum, together with a second copy lacking engraved title-page, Birmingham Library bookplate to front pastedown, modern calf, both 8vo, plus Waldschmidt (Johann Jacobus), Praxis medicinae rationalis succincta, per casus tradita..., preface by Johann Dolaeus, Paris: Sumptibus Societatis, 1691, lacks engraved frontispiece and final blank(?), library stamp to title, some occasional spotting and light browning, library cloth, 12mo. Wing R1559. (5)
Rohault (Jacques). Physica, 2nd edition, 1702, 19 folding engraved plates on 18 sheets, lacking A1 blank, some light dampstains, library stamps, library cloth, 8vo, together with Sprat (Thomas), The History of the Royal-Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge, 2nd edition, 1702, two engraved plates (lacking frontispiece), light water stain, library stamp, library cloth, 4to, plus Pringle (John), Six Discourses, Delivered by Sir John Pringle, Bart. When President of the Royal Society; On the Occasion of Six Annual Assignments of Sir Godfrey Copley`s Medal, 1st edition, 1783, F3 with repaired tear, a few spots, library stamp, library cloth, upper cover detached, spine defective, 8vo, with three others: Robert Boyle`s New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, 2nd edition, 1683 (lacking plates), Benjamin Martin`s The Philosophical Grammar; Being a View of the Present State of Experimented Physiology, or Natural Philosophy in Four Parts, 3rd edition, 1748 and John Keill`s Introductio ad Veram Physicam: Seu Lectiones Physicae, 6th edition, 1741 (6)
Rosen de Rosenstein (N.). The Diseases of Children, and their Remedies. Translated into English by Andrew Sparrman, 1st edition, 1776, light spotting and water stains, library stamp, later library buckram, spine chipped at head, upper joint split, 8vo. Sir Frederic Still considered this work `the most progressive which had yet been written`; it gave an impetus to research which influenced the future course of paediatrics. Rosen was particularly interested in infant feeding` (G-M 6323). First published in Swedish in 1764 the work is considered a landmark in paediatrics. (1)
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