Author: MORLEY (John)
Title: The Twenty-first Edition, Revised, of an Essay, on the Nature and Cure of Scrophulous Disorders, Commonly called the King's Evil; deduced from long observation and practice. With additions. And above sixty cases the remedies in them used, and occasional remarks. To which is prefixed, a coloured plate of the herb vervain...
Description: London: Printed for James Buckland, 1782. Twenty-first edition, 8vo (205 x 130 mm), iv, 5-89, [1]pp., hand-coloured engraved frontispiece of the herb Vervain (a couple of minor stains and slightly trimmed at fore-edge), recent quarter calf, marbled boards, red morocco title label lettered in gilt. Morley acquired a method of treating scrofula and other similar diseases, and first published it as An essay on the nature and cure of the king's evil (1760). The principal cure, it appears, was a preparation of vervain root. The work was still in print in 1800, when a thirty-second edition was published. (Oxford DNB). All editions are rare, this edition recorded by 3 copies in ESTC. This edition not in Wellcome catalogue.

Keywords: MEDICINE MEDICAL BOOKS SCROFULA TUBERCULOSIS