Author: VON ROSENSTEIN, Nicholas Rosen
Title: The Diseases of Children, and Their Remedies
Description: Birmingham, AL, The Classics of Medicine Library, 1984. Hardcover. Translation by Andrew Sparrman. 8vo. Full purple calf with decorative gilt, compartments, gilt spine. 364pp, (15pp). Sewn-in yellow silk page marker. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Near fine. Abrasion near upper edge of front flyleaf. Tight and attractive facsimile reprint of this classic's first edition: T. Cadell of London, 1776 A volume in the nifty "Classics of Medicine" facsimile series. Rosenstein (1706-73) was a Swedish physician and is considered the father of modern pediatrics -- and this title the first important work devoted to the subject. .

Keywords: Americana Medical


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