Books from the Library of the Medical Society of London : an exhibition 14 January to 3 April 1985 / [compiled by John Symons].

  • Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
Date:
1985
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Credit: Books from the Library of the Medical Society of London : an exhibition 14 January to 3 April 1985 / [compiled by John Symons]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hermann BOERHAAVE Libellus de materie medica et remediorum formulis. Leyden: I. Severinus. 1719. Presented by the author to the botanist William Sherard [1659-1728], founder of the chair of botany at Oxford. Thomas TOMLINSON Proposals for publishing by subscription A synopsis of the general practice of physick... Translated from the Latin of Joseph Lieutaud. Birmingham: J. Baskerville. 1770. A unique example of Baskerville's printing. This proposal for an English translation of Lieutaud's Synopsis universae praxeos medicae by the Birmingham surgeon Thomas Tomlinson failed to attract sufficient subscribers. Only the first 16 pages of the text were printed and this is the only copy known to have survived. [M.S.L. T. 42. 16.] Nineteenth Century Thomas ADDISON On the constitutional and local effects of diseases of the supra-renal capsules. London: S. Highley. 1855. The classic account of 'Addison's disease'. Addison was the first to appreciate the importance of the adrenals in clinical medicine. Author's presentation copy. Ignaz Philipp SEMMELWEIS Die Aetiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers. Pest, Vienna & Leipzig: C.A. Hartleben. 1861. Semmelweis was a pioneer of asepsis in obstetrics and recognised puerperal fever to be a form of septicaemia. At the time, his theories aroused strong opposition. This copy of his treatise bears the signature of the Hungarian physician Lajos Markusovszky and may have reached the Medical Society through Joseph Lister. -16-