Author: SELLE, Christian Gottlieb.
Title: Medicina clinica oder Handbuch der medicinischen Praxis. 6th revised ed.
Description: 1793 With engr. frontispiece by Malvieux after Chodowiecki. XIV, 632 pp. 8vo. Contemp. half calf, spine with label gilt (sides somewhat rubbed). Berlin, Christian Friedrich Himburg, 1793. The most successful work of Selle (1748-1800), personal physician to King Friedrich II the Great, whose case history he published in 1786, and to both Friedrich Wilhelm II and III. Eight editions of the present book were published, and it was translated into several languages. The frontispiece after Chodowiecki shows a monument with the portraits of Galen, Hippocrates, and Celsus. - Some foxing. - Hirsch V, p. 356; Lesky, p. 607; cf. Blake 413. Not in Wellcome and Osler. SCIENCE: MEDICINE ;

Keywords: SCIENCE: MEDICINE ;