{"title":"Medicine","description":"\u003cp\u003eRare and antiquarian medical texts, anatomical works, surgical treatises, and histories of medicine. From early printed herbals and anatomies to Victorian clinical practice and early twentieth-century medical science.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"boerhaaves-aphorisms-concerning-the-knowledge-and-cure-of-diseases-second-english-edition-1724","title":"Boerhaave's Aphorisms: Concerning the Knowledge and Cure of Diseases — Second English Edition (1724)","description":"\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBOERHAAVE, Herman.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBoerhaave’s Aphorisms: Concerning the Knowledge and Cure of Diseases. Translated from the Last Edition Printed in Latin at Leyden, 1722. With Useful Observations and Explanations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e London: Printed for William and John Innys, at the West-End of St. Paul’s, 1724. 8vo.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn early English edition of one of the most influential medical textbooks of the eighteenth century, by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHerman Boerhaave\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1668–1738), the celebrated Dutch physician and professor of medicine at Leiden.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBoerhaave’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAphorisms\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e reduced an immense body of contemporary medical knowledge into almost 1,500 numbered observations on the recognition and treatment of disease. Beginning with general principles of diagnosis, the work ranges through inflammation, fever, diseases of the chest and abdomen, neurological disorders, gout, renal and urinary complaints, and contemporary therapeutics.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis teaching at Leiden attracted students from across Europe, and the Boerhaavian approach became especially influential in Britain through the developing Edinburgh medical school.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e20 × 12.5 cm.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCondition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFair to good overall. In its original contemporary panelled calf, substantially worn but retaining considerable period character. The boards are rubbed and scuffed, with pronounced wear to the leather, worn corners and losses and deterioration at the spine ends. The joints are cracked and the binding is fragile in appearance, although the boards remain attached.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInternally considerably better than the exterior suggests: generally clean and sound, with expected age-toning and occasional light marks or staining, including some discolouration to the title page and some corner folding marks. Complete through p. 444 with the final four-page index. An unrestored copy in its original early eighteenth-century binding.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBibliographical Note\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-token-text-primary cursor-text rounded-sm\"\u003e[16]\u003c\/span\u003e, 444, \u003cspan class=\"text-token-text-primary cursor-text rounded-sm\"\u003e[4]\u003c\/span\u003e pp. Second English edition, revised from Boerhaave’s enlarged Leiden text of 1722. The English translation and explanatory observations derive from J. 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Cheyne, a Scottish physician practising in London and Bath, addresses the relationship between everyday habits and physical well-being, combining practical advice with observations drawn from his medical experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume retains its Latin commendatory verses and preliminary publisher's advertisements, the latter listing other works by Cheyne alongside related medical publications. Decorative headpieces, initials and tailpieces ornament the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary full brown calf, the boards framed by gilt double fillets and a decorative blind-tooled border. Spine with five raised bands and gilt rules; unlettered. Speckled page edges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEarly ink ownership inscriptions to the title page, apparently reading \"Jno. 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