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![Fumibore Manufactory . . Drury Lane, 1818 p2 10s 8vo. Hf.cf. With 20 plates illustrating the author’s inventions. 187 Chevalier (Thomas) A Treatise on Gun- shot Wounds, which Obtained the Premium given by the Royal College of Surgeons in London for the Year 1803. Second Edition. London, Samuel Bagster, 1804 £1 5s aa 159 pp. Half calf. Folding plate (surface tear). Chevalier studied under Matthew Baillie, became Surgeon to the Westminster Dispensary, & afterwards Professor of Anatomy and Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons. The present book gained him the appointment of Surgeon Extraordinary to the Prince of Wales, and a diamond ring from the Czar of Russia. 188 Cheyne (George) The Natural Method of Cureing the Diseases of the Body, and the Disorders of the Mind Depending on the Body. London, Geo. Strahan, 1742 £2 15s 8vo. 316 pp. Calf. First EDITION. 189 (Cheyne). Bulloch (John Malcolm) An Aberdeen Falstaff: Dr. George Cheyne, Baa 2 Our Double M.D. Aberdeen University Press, 1930 10s 8vo. 19 pp. Original wrappers. 190 Christison (Sir Robert, F.R.S.E.) On Granular Degeneration of the Kidnies, and its Connexion with Dropsy, Inflammations, and other Diseases. Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1839 15s 8vo. 288 pp. Original quarter cloth. 191 The City Remembrancer, being Historical Narratives of the Great Plague at London, 1665 ; Great Fire, 1666; and Great Storm, 1703, to which are added Observations on the Piague in General . . . with historical accounts of the most memorable Plagues, Fires and Hurricanes. London, 1769 £2 10s 8vo. Old calf, rebacked. 2 vols. 192 Collia (Charles, M.D.) The History of the Plague of Athens, translated from Thucy- dides, With remarks explanatory of its Pathology. London, David Nutt, 1857 10s 6d 8vo. Original cloth. 193 Gopeland (Thomas) Observations on the Symptoms and Treatment of the Diseased Spine, more particularly relating to the incipient stages, with some remarks on the consequent Palsy. London, 1815 21s 8vo. New boards. 113 pp. 2 plates. 16 pp. Small portion torn Uncut copy. advertisement of medical books. from blank margin of halftitle. 194 Cooper (Sir Astley) A Treatise on Disloca- tions and on Fractures of the Joints. Second edition. London, 1823 £2 2s Large 4to. Half morocco, gilt top edges.. With 30 engraved plates. The author’s most important work. ‘‘ Much of this masterly monograph may be read with great profit at the present time ”’ (Keynes). Fine copy. 195 [Cooper (Sir Astley)].—Cooper (Bransby Blake, Cooper, Bart., Interspersed with Sketches from his Note-Books of Distinguished Con- ae oi: is Parker, 1843 8vo. 2vols. Original cloth. Portrait. ’ 196 Coursart (J. N.) A Treatise of the Diseases & Organic Lesions of the Heart & Great Vessels . . . translated from the French by ©. H. Hebb. London & Edinburgh, Underwood & Black, 1813 £12 128 8vo. Old half calf. Very rare first English edition of this classic work. | port He 197 [Culpeper (N.)|. — MacKaile (Matthew, Chyrurgo-Medicine) Moffet-Well: or, A Topographico-Spagyricall description of the Mineral Wells at Moffet in Annandale of Scotland. Translated, and much enlarged, by the Author . . . as also, The Oyly-Well . at St. Catharine’s Chappel in the Paroch of Libberton. To these is subjoyned A Character of Mr. Culpeper and his Writ- ings, by the same Author. Edinburgh, Robert Brown, 1664 £8 15s Sm. 8vo. 196 pp. Contemporary sheep. Very small wormhole in first half dozen leaves. Good copy. i ‘ MacKaile practised at Aberdeen & his portrait hangs in Marischal College. It is to the second part of this book, which has a separate title-page, that many readers would readily turn. Culpeper had got badly under MacKaile’s skin, first as a somewhat bragging theologian, & then as an empiric, & he trounces the dead man in such a manner that one wishes that Culpeper, who had a nimble pen, had been alive to answer back. . This is a rare & most attractive book. 198 (Deuteronomy Smith).—The Awful and Ethical Allegory of Deuteronomy Smith, or, The Life-History of a Medical Student. By a Student of Medicine. Tenth Hdition, Revised and Enlarged. Edinburgh, KE. & S. Livingstone, N.D. 10s 8vo. 32 pp. Original wrappers. : ' , 199 Digby (Sir Kenelme) Two Treatises, in one of which the Nature of Bodies, in the other the Nature of Man’s Soule, is looked into; in way of discovery of the Immor- tality of reasonable soules. London, John Williams, 1669 {4 4s 4to. Half calf (new). 28 Il., 439 pp., 5 ll., 231 pp. The first part of this book is a general treatise on Physics and Natural Science, with two long chapters on the magnet and chapters on the generation of animals and human beings, colour and memory. Chapter 26 deals with the circulation of the blood, and the author corroborates the theories of Harvey. The second part of the book contains the author’s famous book on the Powder of Sympathy and his work on the Vegetation of Plants. 200 Douglas (James, M.D.) Myographiae Com- paratae Specimen: or, A Comparative De- scription of all the Muscles in a Man, and in a Quadruped . . . to which is added an Account of all the Muscles peculiar to a Woman. Edinburgh, A. Kincaid and G. Crawfurd,. 1750 £2 10s 8vo. 219 pp. Sheep. It is very easy to confuse the several eighteenth cen- tury physicians who bore the name of Douglas. James Douglas is distinguished as a thorough and tireless comparative anatomist. He was not only the master & patron of William Hunter, but also an early teacher of Haller. The present book first appeared in 1707, but it will now soon be found that all editions of it are uncommon. (Thomas, M.B.) The Ancient Physician’s Legacy to his Country. Being what he has collected himself, in Tifty-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33153589_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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