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O'MEARA, Edm. [Th. WILLIS].- - Examen Diatribae Thomae Willisii, ... de Febribus. cui accesserunt Historiae aliquot Medicae rariores. ... [W. separate titlepage:] de MEARA, Pathologia Haereditaria Generalis, sive De Morbis Haereditariis Tractatus Spagyrico-dogmaticus; in quo Generalis eorundem Morborum Radix, Naturae, & Therapeutica Indicatio ex utriusque Medicinae fontibus investigatur.

Amstelodami, Apud Gerardum Schagen; Apud Gerbrandum Schagen, 1667. - Ibid., id., 1666. 12mo. 3 parts in 1 vol. W. engr. title [righthand margin a bit short], woodc. vignet on printed title. Excellent modern period style dark red full mor., covers w. single dotted line and each corner w. a floral handtool. Spine in compartments, w. elaborate gilttooling. Edges of covers gilt, inside dentelles. Handsewn head-bands. [A-K12 (K10-12 blank; C3 signed B3)]. (233, I (chapters), VI (blank) pp.). A very good copy. Critical edition by the Irish doctor Edmund O'Meara of Willis's 'Diatribae Duae Medico-Philosophiae', which contained tracts on fermentation and fevers, with an appendix on urines.: Willis Exhibition 1997 [Jesus College, Cambridge], comp. Prof. Compston, p. 12: 'Willis argued that fermentation, the basis for fever and putrefaction, arose from the movement, explosion and escape from bondage of atoms and corpuscles. This is an evolving iatrochemical treatise based on farmyard observations, clinical medicine and armchair theorisation. It includes the first epidemiological studies in medicine and descriptions of influenza, meningococcal meningitis, smallpox, pneumonia, Bubonic plague, typhus, and (in the second edition) puerperial fever. The uses of cinchona bark for quartan fevers (malaria) and spa waters are described. It was criticized mostly by an Irish doctor - Edmund O'Meara.':
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