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![go a Nese eee a ne 169 Gowers (W. R.) Pseudo-Hypertrophic Muscular Paralysis. A Clinical Lecture. London, 1879 5s 8vo. Cloth. 66 pp. With one plate and many illustrations in text. 170 Graves (Robert J.) Clinical Lectures on the Practice of Medicine ...to which is prefixed a criticism by Professor Trousseau. London, 1884 15s 8vo. Cloth. 2 vols. 175aHales (Stephen) Philosophical Experi- ments, containing useful and necessary instructions for such as undertake long voyages at S€a, showing how sea water may be made fresh and wholesome . . . London, Innys and Manby, 1739 £3 10s Svo. Half calf. 2 11, 30, 163, 4 ll. 1 plate. First Epition. An important work in the history of hygiene, containing Hales’s essay on distilled sea water, hygiene of harbours, treatment of water reservoirs, preservation of flesh, etc. Rare. First published in 1848, it ‘‘ introduced many novelties such as the ‘ pin-hole pupil,’ timing the pulse by the watch, and discarding the old lower- ing orantiphlogistic treatment of fevers... Graves also left early accounts of angionoreutic edema, scleroderma and erythromelalgia.’’ His description of exophtalmic goitre still goes by his name, 171 Greenfield (John) A Compleat Treatise of the Stone and Gravel... London, Smith and Lintott, 1710 £2 10s 8vo. Oldcalf. 286 pp. 22 engraved plates of operations for lithotomy performed by doctors in full-bottomed wigs. The author, Jan Groeneveldt, of Deventer, settled in London, and became a fashionable physician. 172 Greenhow (Edw. H.) On _ Addison’s Disease, being the Croonian Lectures for 1875. London, 1875 12s 6d 8vo. Cloth. 212 pp. With several plates. ‘Dedication copy from the author. Small blank strip cut from half-title. 173 Guainerius (A.) Opus predarum ad praxim non mediocriter necessarium cum Joannis Falconis...adiunctis. Lyons, Jacobus Myt for Constantinus Fradin, 1534 £3 15s 8vo. Old stamped calf, a little worn. Goth. char. 8+296 pp. Title printed in red with Fradin’s device. Guainerius, professor of medicine at Pavia died 1445. ‘“‘The most noteworthy portion deals with the pathology of the nervous system and gynaecology.’’ There are sections on the diseases of the eyes and heart. Some slight stains but a sound copy. (M.). Projet de. Décret sur V’Enseignement et l’Exercice de l’Art de guérir. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1791 8vo. Contemp. calf gilt. 39 pp. Bound with :— . Guillotin. Suite du projet de Décret, etc., 12 pp. And with :— A number of pamphlets relating to health of the same period £3 3s The pamphlets are interesting, in planning a new health scheme, with registered doctors, col- leges of medicine, etc., to embrace the whole of France, but the importance of the book lies in the fact that the author was the inventor of the Guillotine, which was named after him, in 1791. N.B.—It seems that the guillotine was invented in Italy in the 16th century, and only named after Dr. Guillotin who suggested its use in the Revolu- tion, 175 Gyraldus (Johannes Baptista) Rupes Insuperabilis in Pelago Medico quam brevi digito innuebat. Bologna, 1693 7s 6d 12mo. Marbled paper. Rare medical book. able case of suicide, with observations on the fatal issue of the rapid introduction of air in large quantity into the circulation during surgical operations. Edinburgh, 1838 os 8vo. Unbound. 15 pp. 1 plate. 177 Haller (Albert von) First Lines of Physiology. Translated from the third Latin edition. Edinburgh, 1801 15s 8vo. Half calf,,a little worn. 3 ll., 508 pp. Rare English edition of one of the Classics o Physiology. 178 Hartman (George) The Family Physitian, or a Collection of Choice, Approv’d and Experienced Remedies for the Cure of Almost all diseases .. . very serviceable to country people. London, Hills, 1696 £3 3s 8vo. Old calf, rebacked. 2 engraved plates at beginning of a still, and distilling apparatus. More than 500 pages of receipts. At the end the True English Wine Cellar—with recipes for making wine from English grapes, also Cider—Royal and Metheglin or mead. The author states that he travelled with Sir Kenelme Digby. Only the first volume was published. Some insignificant stains and last leaves slightly frayed, but a good copy. 179 Harvey (Gideon) The Third edition of the Vanities of Philosophy and Physick enlarged to more than double the number of sheets...there is also now added a third medicine, without which the design of this treatise would be imperfect. London, 1702 10s 6d 8vo. New boards. A little stained on title and in some margins. 180 [Harvey (William)] Observationes et His- toriae e Guilelmi Hervei lbello De Generatione Anmalium excerpta... Item Wilhelmi Lengly De Generatione Animalium Observationes quaedam. Accedunt Ovi faecundi singulis ab incubatione diebus factae inspectiones ; ut et observationum anatomico Med. decades quatuor . . . studio Justi, Schraderi. Amsterdam, A. Wolfgang, 1674 £5 10s 12mo. Original boards, back repaired. 17 Il., 240 pp. 8 engraved plates and engraved frontis- piece. A very rare book on Harvey’s great work on embryology. Langly was a Dutch doctor. The editor of this work, Schrader, asserts that Langly recognised 17 years before Steno and van Horne that the ‘‘ testes muliebres’’ of the mammalia are Ovaries, é.g., organs containing ovula. Very rare. Keynes records seven copies, but none in private possession (No. 41 in the Harvey bibliography).](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33154636_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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