Author: GENEESKUNDIGE PROEVEN.- EDINBURGH.-
Title: Geneeskundige Proeven en Aanmerkingen, nagesien en gemeen gemaakt door een Genoodschap in Edenburg. Uit het Engelsch vertaalt na de tweede druk. Eerste [Tweede] deel. [2 vols. of 4].
Description: Amsterdam, By Jan Hartig, 1739. 4to. 2 vols. in 1. W. very nice engr. title ['S.Fokke invenit et fecit 1739']. and 8 engr. (fold.) pls. First title in black, 2nd printed title in red and black. Contemp. hlf roan over (later machine) marbled brds. (Edges of covers rubbed, corners bumped). [n4, **4, ***4, A-Z4, Aa-Ee4; *4, A-Z4, Aa-Ii4]. (XXIV, 218 pp, VI (Index) pp.; VIII, 248, VII (Index), I (blank) pp.). (Errata on 3*4verso). BMN vol. I, p. 186: A total of 40 plus 36 articles submitted to the Edinburgh Royal Medical Society. One of the early medicial periodicals translated into Dutch and published in the Netherlands. The 76 contributions cover a wide variety of subjectmatter, among others containing articles on the city of Edinburgh, an index of the weather, extracts from the death register etc. The medical articles by a.o. PLUMMER, on an alternative mercurial medicine [7], MONRO, A., injecting the vessels of animals; dissection of the lower jaw; improvement of Paracenthesis; Tympanites. [IX, XI, XVIII, XXXI]. MOFFAT, on mineral waters and spas [VII]. GIBSON, J., nourishment of placenta [XIII]. DOUGLAS, J. kidney stones & Nephrotomia [XXI]. List of medical books for 1731; In the second part: STEDMAN, J., External use of tobacco, use of Therbbinthyn oil [V]; MONRO, A., nourishment of placenta [IX, X, XI]; Idem, Formation of aneurism [XVII]; PAISLEY, the Dura Mater to bone [XXI]; TAYLOR, J., difficulty in swallowing and loss of appetite. [XXV]; COCKBURN, W., Impossibility of intercourse through 'Ambeyen' (Haemorrhoids) [XXVII]; etc. etc. Medical progress since the beginning of 1731 and medical books for 1732.

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