Author: PUGH, J.- Reprints
Title: A treatise on the science of muscular action.
Description: London, Printed for C. Dilly, 1794. [=Reprint, Stuttgart, ca 1970]. In 4to. W. 15 pls. and 15 accomp. outline plates. Original full blindst. clf., spine giltlett. In Original slip case. (XXIV, 106, I (colophon reprint) pp.). (Published in the series 'Editions Medicina Rara'). (Textbooklet 14 pp.). (Bookplate on upper paste down 'Lubbers; blindst. on pr. title). Integral facsimile of Pugh's 1794 treatise on muscular action. Copy XLVII [47] of a limited edition of 300 copies bound in full clf., bound at the bindery of A.W.Lumsden, Loanhead, Midlothian, Scotland. The actual print run of the remaining copies was 2500. From the text booklet: 'John Pugh's 'Treatise on Muscular action' is a significant contribution to the development of medical art at the end of the eighteenth century. This work is not a myography in the traditional sense; rather, Pugh offers here the first and already quite detailed indications of a mode of treatment new for the time: physiotherapy.':

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