65
Maclurg on the bile.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 40. no. 57.
M
cCLURG, James.
Experiments upon the Human Bile: and Reflections on the Biliary Secretion. With an Introductory Essay. By James Maclurg, M.D. . . .
London: Printed for
T. Cadell,
1772.
QP197 .M25
First Edition. 8vo. 142 leaves, last leaf with Erratum only.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue I, viii, 473.
James McClurg, 1746-1823, a native of Virginia, studied medicine in Edinburgh, Paris, and London, where this book was published before
his return to Virginia in 1773. He was appointed to the first chair of Anatomy and Medicine at William and Mary in 1779, and
in 1821 became the first president of the Medical Society of Virginia.
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Medical Observations.
2. vols.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 41. no. 75, as above.
Medical Observations and Inquiries. By a Society of Physicians in London. Vol. I [-II]. The
Second Edition, corrected.
London: Printed for
William Johnston,
1758,
1762.
R128.7 .M5
2 vol. 8vo.
First Edition of vol. II; vol. I, 232 leaves, publisher’s advertisement on the last leaf; vol. II, 226 leaves; folded plates in
both volumes.
The complete work was in six volumes; the first edition of volume I was published in 1757.
Article XII in vol. I is: Of the Opisthotonos and Tetanus. By Dr. Lionel Chalmers, of Charles-Town in South-Carolina, sent
to Dr. John Fothergill.
Article XXXII in vol. II is: A Case of an extra-uterine foetus, described by Mr. John Bard, Surgeon at New-York; in a letter
to Dr. John Fothergill, and by him communicated to the Society. Read March 24, 1760.
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Mandeville on Hysterics.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 40. no. 74, as above.
MANDEVILLE,
Bernard.
A Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Diseases. In Three Dialogues. By B. Mandeville, M.D. . . . The
Second Edition: corrected and enlarged by the Author.
London: Printed for
J. Tonson,
1730.
RC340 .M3
8vo. 206 leaves.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue I, viii, 575.
Bernard Mandeville, c. 1670-1733, a native of Dort in Holland who settled in England. The first edition of this book, published in 1711, was
the first important work on the vapours and the spleen. It is written in the form of dialogues between a physician and his
patients.
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Millar on the change of opinion in religion, politics, medicine.
2. v.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 41. no. 90, as above.
MILLAR,
John.
Observations on the change of public opinion in religion, politics, and medicine; on the conduct of the war; on the prevailing
diseases in Great Britain, and on medical arrangements in the army and navy.
London [
1803].
