Author: FREIND, J.
Title: Opera omnia medica.
Description: London, Wright, J., 1733. Folio. W. engr. vign. on title [Fourdrinier sculp.'], engr. head- tailpieces & initials, engr. front. portr. ('G. Vertue sculpsit 1730' after 'M. Dhal'). (Portrait some foxing and light soiling.). In very nice 20th c. half polished clf., over marbled brds., w. red title shield (IX, X, 6, XXX, VI, 591 (Vo blank), 25, XII (Vo blank). (Small oval vague libr. st. on title, final 60 lvs. lower blank right hand corner sl. watersp.). DSB V, p. 156/7 '...contains all Feind 's major scientific and medical writings: Praelectiones chymicae...Emmenologia...Hippocratis de morbis...De purgantibus...de quibusdam variolarum generibus epistola...Historia medicinae...' (A Latin transl. of 'The history of physick', see G&M 6378). The 'Historia' was long regarded as an authoritative work....especially strong on medical treatment': Blake p.161: Wellcome III, p.66: Cole, 1307: Bayle & Thill. II, 186/8: Hirsch II, 609/10: First collected edition, edited by J. Wigan, who also contributed a life of Freind.: G&M comp. 6378 (1st engl. ed. 1725 - 1726): 'Freind was the first English historian of medicine; his book is the best English work on the period of which it treats....':

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