8vo. 260 leaves, the title-page printed in red and black.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue I, ii, 209.
Van der Aa II, 731.
Hermann Boerhaave, 1668-1738, Dutch physician and man of science, was the founder of the Eclectic School of medicine and the leading physician
of his age. He was professor of botany, medicine and chemistry at Leyden, and eventually rector of the University. His
Institutiones Medicae was originally published in Leyden in 1708.
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Shaw’s Practice of Physic.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 41. no. 26, as above.
SHAW,
Peter.
A new practice of physic; wherein the various diseases incident to the human body are describ’d, their causes assign’d, their
diagnostics and prognostics enumerated, and the regimen proper in each deliver’d; with a competent number of medicines for
every stage and symptom thereof, prescribed after the manner of the most eminent physicians among the moderns, and particularly
those of London. The whole formed on the model of Dr. Sydenham, to execute the design of his Processus integri. In
two volumes. By Peter Shaw . . . The
fifth edition, corrected . . .
London: printed for
T. Longman,
1738.
2 vol. 8vo., together 375 leaves, paged continuously; no copy was seen for collation.
Not in Osler.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue II, iv, 571.
Peter Shaw, 1694-1763, English physician and author, was a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and physician-in-ordinary to King
George II.
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Brooke’s introduction to Physic.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 39. no. 27. as above.
BROOKES,
Richard.
An Introduction to Physic and Surgery: containing I. Medicinal Institutions . . . II. A Compendious System of Anatomy. III.
A General Account of Wounds . . . IV. Botany and the Materia Medica. V. Pharmacy . . . VI. A Dispensatory . . . VII. An Index
of Diseases and their Remedies. VIII. A Posological Table . . . By R. Brookes, M.D. Author of the General Practice of Physic. The
Second Edition.
London: Printed for
J. Newbery,
1763.
R128.7 .B8
8vo. 200 leaves.
Hirsch,
Biographisches Lexikon I, 585.
This edition not in the
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue.
Welsh, page 179.
Richard Brookes, fl. 1750, English physician and author. The first edition of the
Introduction to Physic and Surgery was published by Newbery in 1754.
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Brooke’s Practice of Physic.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 39. no. 28, as above.
BROOKES,
Richard.
The General Practice of Physic; extracted chiefly from the Writings of the most celebrated practical Physicians, and the Medical
Essays, Transactions, Journals, and Literary Correspondence of the Learned Societies in Europe. To which is prefixed, an introduction,
containing the Distinction of Similar Diseases,
