Author: HOME, F.
Title: Medical facts and experiments.
Description: London, Printed for A.Millar in the Strand, and A.Kincaid and J.Bell, at Edinburgh, 1759. 8vo. Original full clf. covers, spine (old) rebacking in matching clf., w. raised bands. (VIII, 288 pp.). (some light yellowing of the text; turn inns of the binding badly affecting the endpapers resulting in browned outer margins of upper and lower paste downs and free endp.). First edition. Good copy. G&M 5442: 'Experimental human transmission of measles' [described on pp. 266 - 288).:Mettler, p. 744: Parish, p. 289: '... active immunization against measles was introduced by Fr. Home.': In three parts, containing 9, 17 & 4 sections resp., Home discusses a.o the following topics: Epidemic fevers of 1742 - 1748 [British troops in Flanders; idem in the encampment at 'Boisleduc'] , epidemic lumbago, small-pox, miliary fever, gun-shot wounds, gout, remittent fever, periodic dysentery, periodic cough, stone in the urether, ulcer of the lungs, consumption, inflammation of the testicle, a fall on the head, fracture of the skull, inflammation of the brain, low fever, 'experimenst on the proportionate velocity of the blood & heat of the human body in morbid cases', 'experimenst on the quantity of insensible perspiration at Edinburgh', 'Experiments on the Inoculation of the measles'.

Keywords: war immunology communicable diseases naval hygiene military medicine W30A