38
Tazewel’s Vademecum Medicum.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 41. no. 4, as above.
TAZEWELL,
William.
Vade-Mecum Medicum in duas Partes divisum, quarum Prior, Nosologiam Culli næam, Posterior, Compendium Materiæ Medicæ et Pharmacopœiæ,
Exhibet . . . Auctore Gulielmo Tazewell, M.D. Virginiense . . .
Lutetiæ Parisiorum: apud
A. J. Dugour et
Durand,
Philadelphiæ, apud
Dobson, et
Edinburgi, apud
Alex. Guthrie, Anno Sexto-
1798.
RC96 .T4
First Edition. 12mo. 110 leaves; corrigenda slip at the end.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue II, xvii, 632.
Not in Sabin.
Jefferson’s copy was a presentation from the author, to whom the former wrote from Washington, Jan. 23, 1803: “
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to Doctor Tazewel for his Medical Vademecum. it has really brought the whole science of diseases
& remedies within the shortest compass possible, and, not meddling with the details of the science himself, it presents exactly
such a general view of every part of it, as he himself often wishes to take. he presents to Doct
r. Tazewel his respectful salutations.
”
The binding of Jefferson’s copy was possibly similar to the one the author presented to George Washington (now in the Library
of Congress), which is of tree calf, gilt ornamental borders on the sides, gilt back, blue endpapers.
William Tazewell, fl. 1798-1832, was a native of Virginia, and was one of the original members of the Virginia Medical Society formed in 1821.
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39
Aphorisms of Sanctorius by Quincey.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 39. no. 38, as above.
SANCTORIUS,
Sanctorius.
Medicina Statica: being the Aphorisms of Sanctorius, translated into
English, with large Explanations. To which is added Dr. Keil’s Medicina Statica Britannica, with comparative Remarks, and Explanations. As also Medico-Physical Essays . . . The
Third Edition. By John Quincy, M.D. . . .
London: Printed for
W. and J. Newton,
E. Bell,
W. Taylor and
J. Osborn,
1723,
4.
R128.7 .S21
8vo. 246 leaves, engraved frontispiece and one folded plate; the
Aphorisms of Dr. Keil, with caption title, begins on sig. Y, page 321; sig. Aa
1 has the title for
Medico-Physical Essays . . . By John Quincy, M. D. with imprint dated 1724.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue, I, xii, 508.
Sanctorius Sanctorius, 1561-1636, physician of Padua, Italy, known as the founder of the physiology of metabolism. The original edition of
De Statica medicina aphorismi was printed in Venice in 1614, 12mo. The frontispiece to this edition of the English translation is the well known representation
of the author in his steelyard chair, weighing himself for a metabolism experiment after a meal.
John Quincy (see no. 864 and 875) received his M.D. degree at Edinburgh University for this work, first published in Edinburgh in 1712.
James Keill, 1673-1719, Scottish physician. His
Medicina Statica Britannica was first published in the third edition of his Essays, 1718.
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