BENVENUTO (Josepho)/ Benvenuti (Giuseppe).:

De Lucensium Thermarum Sale Tractatus.

Lucae Excudebat Josph Salani, Prassidum Adprobatione, 1758. 8vo, 172 x 118, pp. 11 [12 blank], 46. [BOUND WITH (as usual):] Del Sale delle Acque Termali di Lucca trattato di Giuseppe Benvenuti. Dott di Med. Membro della Società Imperiale di Germania, e della Reale di Gottinga. Con una Lettera in cui si descrivono le Infermità nelle quali convengono le medesime Acque. In Lucca MDCCLVIII. Dalle Stampe di Giuseppe Salani [1758]. 8vo, pp. xiv [xv - xvi blank], 49 [50 blank, 51 drop-title, 52 blank], 53 -104, including index, contemporary vellum, red leather label; binding a little soiled but a very good copy. The works of the Italian physician Giuseppe Benvenuti (1723-1810) show a wide-ranging interest in various cures for various human afflictions, as in these volumes, which affirm the therapeutic powers of the thermal salty waters of Lucca in the north of Tuscany. Benvenuti was born in Lucca, and later practised there as a surgeon and physician. The thermal water at Bagni di Lucca has been considered one of the most important sources of well-being in the Tuscan spa complex; in fact, these waters flow naturally at particularly high temperatures, which are around 45° and 54°. In eighteenth-century Italy, Benvenuti attained a reputation as one of the primary experts on the health benefits and qualities of the various spa waters of the age, being awarded a prize for a later dissertation on waters in 1769 by the Academy of Ravenna, who duly elected him a member in recognition of his aqueous expertise. Benvenuti's work has been known to practitioners and historians in the British Isles, too, for centuries, with Robert Watt, a physician himself as well as tireless bibliographer, referring to Benvenuti as the "celebrated Italian physician" (Bibliotheca Britannica, 1824, 1:100-101). The number of copies present in these isles have remained few, however. For De Lucensium Thermarum Sale Tractatus (1758), COPAC traces three copies: British Library, Royal Society, and Wellcome. COPAC locates no editions from other years. For Del Sale delle Acque Termali (1758), COPAC traces three copies in the same libraries: British Library, Royal Society, and Wellcome. COPAC locates no editions from other years. Both works are also scarce in commerce. The family of Giacomo Puccin was for many years a musical dynasty that flourished in Lucca. Although I am not a great fan of all of Puccini's operas, I should record that that the sublimely healthful waters of Lucca might have played some part in keeping Puccini and his family healthy, enabling him to compose the operas that most opera houses can regularly depend upon to fill seats. Beauvais de Preau, Nuovo Dizionario Storico (1831), 1:425. Michaud, Biographie universelle (1870), 3:678. Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica, 1824, 1:100-101.

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Mots-clés: medicine hydrotherapy prose

BERKELEY (George):

Recherches sur Les Vertus de l'Eau de Goudron, Ou l'ou a joint des Reflexions Philosophiques sur divers autres sujbects important. Traduit de l'Anglois Du Dr. George Berkeley, Eveque de Cloyne/ Avec deux Lettres de l'Auteur.

Amsterdam, Chez Pierre Mortier, 1745 FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION. 12mo, 168 x 100 mms., pp. xxiv, 343 [344 blank], including half-title, recent quarter sheepskin, red morocco label, old marbled boards. A goodish copy. "Jessop noted that the catalogue of the Surgeon-Geneeral's Library, Washington, attributes the translation to D. R. Bouiller. The translator suppressed Berkelery title, Siris, etc., explaining in his preface that he thought it misleading and too obscure for the generality of his readers. He stated that he used as the source of his text the 'third edition', that is presumably, the second Dublin edition; he had also profited by manuscript corrections and additions, which the author had supplied" (Keynes). Jessop 184. Keynes 73. The translation was reviewed in Acta Eruditorum (Leipzig, 1746).

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CARBONELL Y BRAVO (Francisco):

Elemens de Pharmacie, Fondes sur Les Principes de la Chimie Moderne. Traduite de l'original Latin. Nouvelle Edition Augmentee par l'auteur, revue et corrigee. Par P. Poncet.

Paris, Chez Mequignon..., An xi, - 1803. 8vo, pp. xxxv [xxxvi blank], 212, uncut, stitched as issued in original wrappers; last few leaves mis-numbered, edges a little worn.

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DOLMAN (John):

Contemplations amongst Vincent's Rocks, Near the City of Bristol: In which there is a Description, not only of the said Rocks, and of the Woods, and a peculiar Flower that grows upon and amongst them.... The Second Edition, Corrected and Improved.

London: Printed and Sold by J. and W. Olivers.., E. and C Dillyk..., 1772. 1772. 12mo, 168 x 100 mms., pp. [3] 4 - 132, contemporary sheepskin, recently repaired and rebacked, olive morocco label; corners very worn, but a goodish copy with the autograph "Jos. Whittuck/ Jany 19 1789" on the front paste-down end-paper. John Dolman published this in a shorter version of 108 pages in 1755, but this 1772 imprint has been expanded. ESTC describes it as a work having to do with "water efficiency", which seems reductive indeed, as the work goes far beyond that. An epistolary work, it begins by investigating the medicinal properties of "The New Hot-Wells", and notes several examples of people who have been cured, including John Wesley, who was a personal friend of the author. There would seem little doubt that the account of Wesley's encounter with the waters is first-hand: "When he first came, his once active Body, seemed as if it had nearly, very nearly, worn out his Countenance; he looked as if a greedy Consumption had determined soon to devour him: The pale Messenger's Harbingers appeared to have more than laid Hands upon him, to put a Period to his Days: But in less than three Weeks God so blessed the Water to him, which he regularly drank, that he was enabled to set out on his Cornish Circuit; which, if I mistake not, extends almost to the Land's End, preaching every Day" (p. 6). And then, just to remind us that Designer Water is not a new phenomenon, we learn, "There are large Quantities of this Water bottled, and sent to different Parts of the World" (p. 6). The ESTC does not give birth or death dates for John Dolman, though they can be supplied now: he "departed this life the 5th of Aug. 1774" when "aged 52 years", according to his tomb at Chalk (Kent Archaeological Society website: ). This means he almost certainly oversaw this second edition, and that this edition represents his latest revisions and thoughts in print. There were only two editions of the book. The first, published in 1755 (ESTC T165430), the ESTC finds extant in only two copies: Cambridge University Library and the Bodleian Library at Oxford. The second and expanded edition, offered here, published in 1772 (ESTC T69428), is found by ESTC in only three copies: British Library, Cambridge University Library, and the University of Bristol. The ESTC finds no copies in North America and none outside Britain. (The ESTC also calls perhaps mistakenly for a half-title, but the title-page is followed by a leaf signed A2.)

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Catalogue: Medicine

Mots-clés: medicine water

HUXHAM (John):

Observationes de Aere et Morbis Epidemicis, Ab Anno MDCCXXVIII ad Finem Anni MDCCXXXVII, Plymuthi factae. His Accedit Opusculum De Morbo Colico Damnoniensi. Editio Secunda. [AND]: Observationum de Aere et Morbis Epidemicis Volumen alterum; Ab Anni nimirum Initio 1738 ad Exitum usque 1748.

Londini: Impensis Joannis Hinton..., 1752. FIRST EDITION of volume 2. 2 volumes. 8vo, 205 x 123 mms., pp. [iv], xxx, 161 [162 blank], 38 [39 - 42 Index]; xix [xx Errata], 208, one engraved plate in first volume, contemporary calf, rebacked, red leather labels; tear in fore-margin of F4 slightly affecting text, edges browned, corners worn. John Huxham (1692 - 1768) gained his M. D. at Rheims in 1717; he returned to Devon, where he had been born, but later moved to Plymouth. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1739 but achieved medical fame in 1750 with his Essay on Fevers and their Various Kinds. Although there was some dubious scandal attached to Huxham in his early years in Plymouth, the Leipzig scholar and physician, G. D. Reidel, said of him in 1764, "who has so much as hailed our art from the threshold, who has yet never heard the great name of HUXHAM?" The Victorian biographer of English physicians, William Munk, in a modified version of earlier assessment of Huxham, concluded that Huxham "by a life of unimpeachable correctness...obtained universal respect."

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N° du livre: 6983

Catalogue: Medicine

Mots-clés: medicine science prose

LISTER. TURNER (A. Logan):

Joseph, Baron Lister. Centenary Volume 1827 - 1927. Edited for the Lister Centenary Committee of the British Medical Association.

Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1927. FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. xv [xvi blank], 182 [183 epigraph, 184 printer's imprint], portrait, illustrations, original cloth, embossed in gilt. A very good copy. Loosely inserted is a fine pencil sketch of Logan Turner.

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MIHLES (Samuel):

Elements of Surgery. In which are contained All the essential and necessary Principles of the Art; with an Account of the Nature and Treatment of Chirurgical Disorders, and a Description of the Operations, Bandages, Instruments, and Dressings, according to the modern and most approved Practice. Adapted to the Use and Camp and Navy as well as of the Domestic Surgeon. Illustrated with Twenty-Five Copper-Plates.

London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton..., 1746. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 204 x 120 mms., pp. [vi], 324. [12 - Index], 25 folding engraved plates, which are numbered 1-3, then lettered A-Y (minus J and V), contemporary calf, rebacked in morocco, dark red label on spine; generally a good copy, with clear impressions of the plates. The autograph of the unbiquitiusly-promiscuious nomenclature "John Smith" on the top margin of the title-page, the Caldecott bookplate on the front paste-down end- paper, and on the top margin of the recto of the front free end-paper, "John Yerbury Dent/ 1918" and below that and ex-libris stamp, "J. R. Kirkup." "John Kirkup, MD, MA, FRCS, Dip Hist Med studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and St Mary's Hospital, London, qualifying in 1952. After service in the Royal Navy he worked as an orthopedic surgeon for the Bath Clinical Area, Somerset, introducing ankle joint replacement to the United Kingdom in 1976. Always intrigued by the evolution of surgery from its pre-historic roots, Mr Kirkup edited facsimiles of Wiseman's Of Wounds (1676) and Woodall's Surgions Mate (1617), published A Historical Guide to British Orthopaedic Surgery, and contributed chapters in books on Ambroise Paré, on pain management during surgery, on trepanation, on the battle against infection, on damaged surgeon's equipment of the Mary Rose shipwreck and on instrumentation generally. He published a wide variety of journal communications including and extended series on surgical instruments and on the history of foot and ankle surgery, and twelve surgical entries in the New Dictionary of National Biography. He has been Hunterian, Vicary, Sydenham and Hamilton Russell Lecturer, was awarded the Sir Arthur Keith Medal of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and has advised widely on museum collections, especially in the UK, Portugal and Australia. Formerly President of the British Society for Medical History, President of the History Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, Honorary Archivist of the British Orthopaedic Association and Chairman of the Historical Medical Equipment Society, Mr Kirkup is currently Honorary Curator of the Historical Instrument Collection at the Royal College of Surgeons, London, and Lecture in Surgical History to the Society of Apothecaries, London. He is also about to publish a book on the evolution of surgical instruments" (springer.com). John Yerbury Dent was a practicing physician who advocated the use of apomorphine for the treatment of alcoholism

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PAPA (Giuseppe del):

Consulti Medici.

In Venezia; Per Sebastiano Coleti, 1734. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, 232 x 168 mms., pp. [iii], 220; [viii], 223 [2234 blank], engraved vignette on each title-page, with contemporary note on title-page of volume one, contemporary vellum, lettered in ink on spine; front hinge slightly cracked, no front free end-paper, vellum a bit soiled, but an attractively-printed copy, The Italian doctor Giuseppe Del Papa (1648 - 1735) published his first work, Lettera intorno alla natura del caldo e del freddo, in Florence in 1674. This was followed by numerous other works and an illustrious career.

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RANDOLPH (George):

An Enquiry into the Medicinal Virtues of Bristol-Water: and the Indication of Cure which it answers.

London: Printed for R. Baldwin..., 1750. 8vo, 197 x 111 mms., pp. [viii], 176, recently rebound in quarter blue morocco, blue boards, red leather label on spine; lacks final advert leaf, but a very good copy. The fascination for, and belief in, the curative powers of foul-tasting liquids sometimes seems to be a genetic quirk in mankind. Tar water and its cousins were popular in medieval times, and, of course, in the 18th century Bishop George Berkeley extolled its virtues in Siris (1744). The first edition of Randolph's book was published the following year. Randolph's book begins with a historical survey of those who have noticed the medicinal properties of a well of hot water near Bristol. The secon part of the volume is devoted to the ills which are cured by Bristol-water: hectick fever ["immoderate discharges"], hemorrhages, diabetes, ulcers, etc. Similar quack cures are still to be found on the world wide web.

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N° du livre: 8657

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Mots-clés: medicine quackery prose

RAY (John):

Philosophical Letters Between the late Learned Mr. Ray And several of his Ingenious Correspondents, Natives and Foreigners. To which are added those of Francis Willughby Esq. The Whole consisting of many curious Discoveries and Improvements in the History of Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Insects, Plants, Fossiles, Fountains, &c. Published by W. Derham, Chaplain to his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, and F.R.S.

London: Printed by William and John Innys, Printers to the Royal Society..., 1718. FIRST EDITION. 88vo, 194 x 110 mms., pp. [viii], 376 [377 - 386 Index, 387 - 388 adverets], woodcut diagrams in text, bound in contemporary unlettered panelled calf; joints cracked but holding, the upper joint internally strengthened, slightly rubbed and worn at corners, internally sound and clean. A very good copy with the autograph and inscription of Dr. William Bold, dated 1721, and that of Josiah Babington, 1724, on the upper margin of the front paste-down end-papers. There are also annotations and additions of the index in, probably, Babington's hand, as well as a note on the verso of the front free end-paper in a contemporary hand on the medical content in the work. The polymath John Ray (1627–1705) was successively a Lecturer in Greek, Mathematics, and Latin at Trinity College, Cambridge, and later took up botany and theology. He made the acquaintance of Francis Willughby, with whom he toured much of Britain, making notes on natural phenomena, animals, and natural philosophy. Charles Raven in his biography of Ray (1950; 2nd ed.) asserts that "Ray sweeps away the litter of mythology and fable... and always insists upon accuracy of observation and description and the testing of every new discovery." Keynes 109.

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N° du livre: 10232

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SYDENHAM (Thomas):

Medecine pratique de Sydenham, avec des notes; Ouvrage traduit en Francois sur la derniere edition Angloise, Par feu M. A. F. Jault.

Paris, Chez Theophile Barrois..., 1784. Large 8vo, pp. [iii] - xxxviii [xxxix - xl Approbation], 1728, 19th century quarter sheepskin, gilt spine, marbled boards; base of spine defective. Jault's translation was first published in 1774.

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N° du livre: 2208

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Mots-clés: medicine French prose French

TISSOT (Samuel August David):

Advice to the People in General, With Regard to their Health: But particularly calculated for those, who are the most unlikely to be provided in time with the best Assistance, or upon any sudden inward or outward Accident. With A Table of the most cheap, yet effectual Remedies, and the plainest Directions for preparing them readily. Translated from the French Edition of Dr. Tissot's Avis au Peuple, &c. Printed at Lyons; with all the Notes in the two former English Editions, and a few additional ones. By J. Kirkpatrick, M. D. The Third Edition revised and corrected. With some further additional Notes and Prescriptions, and with the former Appendix.

London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt..., 1768. 8vo, pp. xxxii [xxxiii - xxxvi Contents], 620, contemporary calf; pp. 594 - 600 damp-stained, joints cracked, top and base of spine chipped, corners worn, lacks label. With the contemporary inscription "Ednd. Burford Junr.// ex done Patris/ Anno Domini Jany. 1769" on the recto of the front free end-paper. The first English translation of Tissot's work was published in 1765, and its immediate popularity documented an increasing awareness by a growing middle-class population of health matters. Tissot (1728 - 1797), a Swiss general practitioner, published his work in 1761. Two years earlier, he had published L'Onanisme, about the dangers of masturbation.

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N° du livre: 5792

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VINAS Y BARNOYA (Narcis F. J.):

Essai sure les Passions de l'Ame, Considerees comme Cause de Maladies; Presented et Publiquement souten a la Faculte de Medecine de Montpellier, le 2 Mai 1809.

A Montpellier, chez Jean Marten aine..., 1809. 4to, pp. 40 [41 argument, 42 blank], disbound; slight water-staining of inner margin.

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N° du livre: 2045

Catalogue: Medicine

Mots-clés: medicine French

WILKINSON (Abraham):

Tentamen Philosophico-Medicum, De Electricitate. Quod Annuente Summo Numine, Ex Auctoritate Reverndi admodum Vir, Dr. Gulielmi Robertson, S. S. T. P.... Pro Gradu Doctoris... Eruditorum examini subjicit Abrahamus Wilkinson.

Edinburgi: Apud Balfour et Smellie..., 1783. FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo (in 4s), pp. [7] 8 - 61 [62 blank], contemporary tree calf, gilt border on covers, gilt spine; front joint cracked, lacks label, but a good copy with the autograph "Tho. Wilkinson/1786" on the front paste-down end-paper. The list of examiners for this doctoral dissertation on electrotherapy names Joseph Priestley, Hollis Edwards, and Josiah Thompson. This copy is likely an association copy twice over, as no doubt the Thomas Wilkinson who inscribed this copy is related to the Abraham Wilkinson who wrote the work, and likely both are related to the Wilkinson family that Joseph Priestley married into when, in June 1762, he married Mary Wilkinson, daughter of Isaac Wilkinson, the "prosperous ironmaster near Wrexham", on whom see David L. Wykes and Isabel Rivers, eds., Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) p. 33. Considering the large role that the Wilkinson family played in Priestley's life story (his brother-in-law John Wilkinson also provided him much financial support), and the large role that electricity played in Priestley's experimental career, this Thomas Wilkinson copy of the dissertation by Abraham Wilkinson examined by Joseph Priestley is no doubt a worthy accession to any collection concerned with Joseph Priestly, a scientist and thinker immensely important to both America and Britain, being a longtime resident of each country, and having discovered Oxygen in the latter. In the United States, Priestley is of course most closely associated with Pennsylvania, as he lived there from 1794 to 1804. This is ESTC T149564: the database shows that most extant copies of this work are in either Edinburgh University Library or the Wellcome Library of Medicine. There is no copy in the British Library, and only one university in the Ivy League has it: Yale. The ESTC does not identify Abraham Wilkinson, offering no life dates and no place of residence.ictionaire des sciences medicales (1815), page 511: "C'est un partie dans cette these que M. Mauduyt a puise les observations qu'il a consignées dans son ouvrage." Wellcome Collection: Women in Medicine [online].

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N° du livre: 9316

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WINSLOW (James Benignus):

An Anatomical Exposition of the Structure of the Human Body. Translated from the French Original, by G. Douglas, M. D. The Fourth Edition, Corrected.

London: Printed for R. Ware, J. Knapton...[et al], 1756. 2 volumes in 1. 4to, pp. xxiv, 334; iv [v - x Contents], 355 [356 - 364 "The Explication of the Plates", four folding engraved plates at end of volume 2, 20th century library cloth; text browned throughout, ex-library.

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N° du livre: 3480

Catalogue: Medicine

Mots-clés: medicine translation prose