Exhibition : Dr. Samuel Johnson and eighteenth century medicine , 5 January - 2 March 1984 / Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

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Credit: Exhibition : Dr. Samuel Johnson and eighteenth century medicine , 5 January - 2 March 1984 / Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    One of Johnson's early works was this descriptive catalogue of the Earl of Oxford's private library for the bookseller Thomas Osborne. William Oldys had been the Earl's secretary. Within a year about forty thousand titles were listed. 11. Sydenham, Thomas (1624-1689) The entire works. London: E. Cave. 1742. This is the first appearance of Johnson's life of Sydenham. It later appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine. 12. The life of Hermann Boerhaave, the famous chemist, botanist and physician from the Gentleman's Magazine, 1739. Boerhaave had died on 23 September, 1738, and this life was translated by Johnson from the Latin of Albert Schultens. It was later printed with additions in James's 'Medicinal dictionary'. Three medical books, copies of which were in Johnson's library. 13. Aretaeus Cappadox [c. A.D. 150-200] De causis et signis morborum. Paris: H. Stephanus. 1567. 14. Cheyne, George (1671-1743) The English malady. London: G. Strahan & J. Leake. 1733.