First Lines of the Practice of Physic. In Four Volumes
CULLEN, William; ROTHERAM, John (ed.)
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Topics include: cholera; hysteria; madness; melancholy; scrofula or the King's Evil; syphilis; scurvy; fevers; inflammation; toothache; smallpox; plague; St. Anthony's Fire; menstrual cycle; palsy; fainting; St. Vitus' Dance; much more.
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Publisher: Bell & Bradfute, and William Creech
Edition: n/a
Date Published: 1796
Place Published: Edinburgh
ISBN: n/a
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Condition: Fair
Signed: No
Dust Jacket: No
Jacket Condition: n/a
Details: 4 vols.: xii, 471; 496; 470; 512 p. 22 cm. Full leather. Two boards detached and one loosening. Worn, especially corners. Spine labels missing. A front endpaper missing in vol. 1. Ink signatures on front endpapers. Vols. 2-4 have chipped top corners on front endpapers where perhaps another signature torn off. Occasional spots, eg. vol. 1 p. 7. Vol. 1 p. 239 has rough edge. Dampstains to first pages in vol. 4. Text block highly readable but in need of new binding.