FREIND, J.
Opera Omnia, nempe commentarii novem de febribus: De Purgantibus in secunda Variolarum Confluentium Febre Epistola: Praelectiones Chymicae: Emmonologia. Nunc primum in unum collecta. B.u..w. 2) Idem, Historia medicinae a Galeni tempore usque ad initium saeculi decimi sexti. In qua ea praecipue notantur quae ad Praxin pertinent, anglica scripta ad Ricardyum Mead, latine conversa a Joanne Wigan. Cum indicibus locupletissimis.
Venetiis, Apud Franciscum Storti sub signo Fortitudinis, 1733. & Ibid., apud Sebastianum Coleti, 1735. 2 vols. in 1. 4to. W. large woodc. devices on titles [the second device signed in the block 'G.P.']. A few woodc. ills. in the text. Very good contemp. full clf., spine in 6 compartments, elaborately gilt, w. red title shield. (XII, 220 [p. 220 advert page for 'Storti'], 19, (appendix), I ('Ego scribi...') pp; XL, 224 (Index pp. 202 - 224) pp.). (Part 1, H3 (pp. 117/18) a small tear in righthand blank margin.). A very good copy' of this Venice printed collected latin edition (edited by J.Wigan) of Freind's 'The History of Physick', which also appeared earlier in Neapoli, 1730. DSB vol. V, pp. 156 - 157: '... contains all Freind's major scientific and medical writings: Praelectiones chymicae... Emmonologia ... Hippocratis de Morbis... De Purgantibus... de quibusdam variolarum generibus epistola ... Historia medicinae ...'[ a latin translation of 'The History pf Physick']. The Historia was long regarded as an authoritative work ... especially strong on medical treatment.': Hirsch vol. II, pp. 28 - 29: Garrison, p. 385: G&M, comp. 6378 (1st engl. ed. 1725/26): 'Freidn was the first English historian of medicine; his book is the best English work on the period of which it treats. Freidn dabbled in politics and planned the avbove work while committed to the Tower of London on a charge of high treason, a charge of which he was innocent. Sir Robert Walpole, Prime Minister at the time, suffered much from renal calculi and called in Mead, a great friend of Freind. Mead refused to treat Walpole until Freind was released. ..':
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