Author: GUIDOTT, TH.,
Title: A discours of Bathe, and the hot waters there. Also some Enquiries into the nature of the Water of St. Vincent's Rock, near Bristol; and that of Castle-Cary.To which is added, a Century of Observations more fully declaring the Nature, Property, and distinction of the Baths. With an Account of the Lives, and Character, of the Physicians of Bathe. ...[Parts title:] A Century of Observations: Containing further Discoveries... by T.G.M.B... and [Parts title:] The Lives and Character of the Physicians of Bathe, from the year 1598 - 1676 ...
Description: London, Printed for Henry Brome at the Gun in St. Paul's Church-yard, the West end...; 1676. - 1676, 1677. 3 parts in 1 vol. W. engr. front. title ['F.H. van Houe fec.'], 1 fold. engr. plan of Bath [signed 'F.H. van Houe Sculp.', opp. pp. 1], 1 single p. plate opp. p. 24, 1 double page medallion plate opp. p. 68 [bound upside down], 1 fold. engr. plate opp. p. 73 and 1 woodc. (fold.) ill. on page 70. Old clf. rebacking, original covers preserved, corners and edges some rubb. [A8-O8, P4 (L1 and M8 parts titles)]. (XXXII, 200 pp.). (Some browning / yellowing.). (Upper inner hinge bookblock strenghthened; idem facing front. inner hinge splitting.). Comp. Neu 1781: Waring II, 781: Partington II, 607: 'Thomas Guidott criticised Mayow as "a Novel Writer", who 'hath ploughed with my Heifer', yet he accepted most of Mayow's results, maintaining, however, his previous view that the Bath water contains nitre and sulphur.': Wellcome vol. III, p. 178: Krivatsy, 5121: The last part discusses the lives of 17 physicians, among whom doctors Sherwood, Elton, Jorden, Lapworth, Bayley, Greaves, Baue, Maplet, Wall, Leyson, Ostendorph, Dauntsey, Brewer, Somerschall, etc.

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