Author: CLARKE (George Augustine)
Title: The British Physician: or, family instructor in the knowledge of medicine; containing descriptions of all the diseases of the human body.... With directions in what manner to treat every distemper. And prescriptions in English of all the medicines necessary to be given in each. Written by George Augustine Clarke, M.D. Revised, corrected, and enlarged, by a physician in London.
Description: London: Printed for James Hodges. 1750. First Edition, 12mo, [4],iv,350pp., half-title with advert on verso, lacking the final advert leaf, early ownership signature "Charles Bridges, 1767" to endpapers, recent calf, morocco title label on spine. First and only edition of this work which was published from a manuscript left by the little known author after his death, it was revised, corrected, and enlarged by an anonymous physician of London. ESTC locates 2 copies in the British Isles (Hull & NLS) and 4 copies in North America.

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