nation in pregnant women examined . . . In a letter to the author.
London,
1729.
First Edition. 8vo. No copy was located for collation; the above title is from the
British Museum Library Catalogue.
This edition not in Osler.
Munk, page 33.
Daniel Turner, 1667-1740, English doctor, who, though he never visited America[,] was awarded an M.D. by Yale College in 1729 and thus
became the recipient of the first medical degree issued in the English colonies of North America. In his account of Turner,
Munk states that “he obtained the degree of doctor of medicine, but from what university I have not been able to discover.”
For a note on Boerhaave see no. 881. His
new comments on the venereal disease
appeared in his preface to L. Luisini’s
“Aphrodisiacus”
(1728).
The Discourse concerning Gleets was reprinted in the fourth and later editions of the author’s
Syphilis
.
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72
Liger on the Gout.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 40. no. 68, as above.
LIGER,
Charles Louis.
A Treatise on the Gout: from the
French of M. Charles Louis Liger, M.D. Professor of Physic in the University of Paris . . .
London: Printed for
R. Griffiths,
1760.
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8vo. 200 leaves: A-Z, Aa-Bb
8.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue I, viii, 131.
Charles Louis Liger, 1715-1760, French scientist. This is the
first edition in
English of this work originally written in
French and published in Paris in 1753.
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73
Warner on the Gout.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 42. no. 69, as above.
WARNER,
Ferdinando.
A full and plain account of the gout; from whence will be clearly seen the folly, or the baseness, of all pretenders to the
cure of it; in which everything material by the best writers on that subject is taken notice of, and accompanied with some
new and important instructions for its relief, which the author’s experience in the gout above thirty years hath induced him
to impart.
London:
T. Cadell,
1768.
8vo. No copy was seen for collation.
Not in Osler.
The second edition not in the
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue.
According to the 1849 Library of Congress catalogue Jefferson’s copy was of the
second edition, printed in the same year as the first edition.
For a note on the author see no. 438. Warner died of the gout in 1768 the year this book was published. A third edition was issued in 1772.
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74
Cadogan on the Gout.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 39. no. 70, as above.
CADOGAN,
William.
A Dissertation on the Gout, and all chronic Diseases, jointly considered, as proceeding from the same Causes; what those Causes
are; and a rational and natural Method of Cure proposed. Addressed to all invalids. By William Cadogan, Fellow of the College of Physicians . . .
London: Printed for
J. Dodsley,
1771.
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