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The medical works of Richard Mead 1767
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The Medical Works of Richard Mead M.D. Physician to His Late Majesty King George II, printed for Thomas Ewing in Dame Street Dublin 1767.Octavo, full leather, tool work spine. Five fold out pages. Memoirs of the life and writings of the author, A Mechanical Account of Poisons in several Essays, A Treatise concerning the Influence of the Sun and the Moon upon Human Bodies and diseases thereby produced, A Discourse on the Plague, Rhazes treatise on the small-pox and measles, An Historical account of a new method for extracting the foul air out of ships, &c., A discourse on scurvy, Medical precepts and cautions, Medica Sacra, Oratio anniversaria Harveniana: In theatro Regii Medicorum Londinensium Collegii habita, ad Diem XVIII Octobris, M.DCC. XXIII, Johanni Freind Richardus Mead, Index.
Title page has the signature of John Howship (1781-1841) an English surgeon remembered for the Howship Romberg sign. Worked at St Georges Infirmary in London as an assistant surgeon, was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and also lectured at St Georges Hospital Medical School.
DateGeorge III :
1767
DimensionsApprox. 8.5" tall.
ConditionIn reasonably good order. Wear to upper and lower covers, loss of leather to the corners and some loss along the edges. Heavy wear along the joints, some lifting of the leather. Browning to the end papers, some light foxing in places. Small ink stain to the edge of three pages (not detrimental). Page XIX has the corner of the page missing.
Codeas208a1359 / M
Price £320.00 
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