Author: BARKER (John)
Title: A Treatise on Cheltenham Water, And its great use in the present pestilential constitution wherein also Its Nature and Effects are compared with those of some Mineral Waters of the same Class, and others of a different Kind. The whole being illustrated by cases correspondent to each.
Description: Birmingham: Printed by Pearson and Rollason, 1786. First edition, 8vo (200 x 120 mm), [2], 83, [1]pp., title page and terminal leaf dust soiled, errata slip pasted to verso of title page, endpapers renewed, calf-backed marbled boards, gilt title label on upper cover. Not in the Wellcome catalogue; ESTC locates just 2 copies in the UK (BL & Cambridge) and 2 more in North America (Huntington & Wisconsin-Madison).

Keywords: CHEMISTRY HYDROLOGY CHELTENHAM SPAR WATER MEDICINE