35
Cullen’s Practice of Physic.
4. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 40. no. 32, as above, but with misprint 4 v gvo.
CULLEN,
William.
First Lines of the Practice of Physic. By William Cullen, M.D. . . .
Fourth Edition, corrected and enlarged. Vol.
I [-IV].
Edinburgh: Printed for
Charles Elliot [by
Macfarquhar and Elliot],
1784.
RC46 .C9
First Edition of vol. IV. 4 vol. 8vo. Vol. I, 224 leaves; vol. II, 228 leaves; vol. III, 218 leaves; vol. IV, 244 leaves; publisher’s
advertisement on the last leaf of vol. III and on the last 2 leaves of vol. IV; vol. II.-IV include
T. Cadell,
London, in the imprint.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue I, iii, 555.
Entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
36-0.
For a note on Cullen see no. 871. The
First Lines was first published in Edinburgh in 1769-1784 and was frequently reprinted and translated. According to Garrison it was for
years authoritative on medical practice even among the pioneers and “forty-niners” in the Far West.
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Darwin’s Zoonomia.
3. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 40. no. 33, as above.
DARWIN,
Erasmus.
Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life. Vol. I. by Erasmus Darwin, M.D. F.R.S. Author of the Botanic Garden . . .
New York: Printed by
T. & J. Swords,
1796.--
Zoonomia . . . Part Second . . . A New Edition; with An Introductory Address, and a short Appendix, by Charles Caldwell, M.D. Vol. I [-II]. Philadelphia: Printed by
T. Dobson,
1797.
QP29 .D2
First American Edition. Together 3 vol. 8vo. Vol. I, 240 leaves, including six plates; vol. II, 255 leaves; vol. III, 273 leaves.
Evans 30312, 32017.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue I, iii, 597.
Erasmus Darwin, 1731-1802, English physician. See also no. 1072. The first edition of Zoonomia appeared in 1794-6. Volume I of the first American edition was edited by Samuel Latham Mitchill, 1764-1831, New York physician and United States senator, whose preface is dated from Plandome, June 20, 1796. The two volumes
of Part II were edited by Charles Caldwell, 1772-1853, a native of North Carolina, and the introducer of true medical science
into the Mississippi valley. His Introductory Address to this work is dated from Philadelphia, January 10, 1797.
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Brown’s Elements of Medecine.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 39. no. 8, as above.
[BROWN,
John.]
The Elements of Medicine; or, a Translation of the Elementa Medicinae Brunonis. With large Notes, illustrations, and Comments.
By the Author of the original work. The
Sixth Edition.
Fairhaven: Printed by
James Lyon, at Voltaire’s Head,
1797.
R733 .B954
12mo. 216 leaves; folded table.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Evans 31880.
Gilman 41.
Cooley 363.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue I, i, 491.
John Brown, 1736-1788, the founder of the Brunonian system of medicine, was a native of Berwickshire. Brown was at one time employed
by Cullen as tutor to his children and assistant to himself. In the
Elementa Medicinae, first published in 1780, Brown opposed the theories of Cullen. The translation into English was made by the author himself
in twenty-one days. Brown’s method was supported in America by Benjamin Rush, who published the first American edition of
The Elements of Medicine in Philadelphia in 1790. John Brown was the grandfather of Ford Madox Brown.
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