Lot 174
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LIND, James (1716-94). A Treatise on the Scurvy. In three parts. Containing an enquiry into the nature, causes, and cure, of that disease. Together with a critical and chronological view of what has been published on that subject ... the third edition enlarged, London: for C. Crowder, D. Wilson and G. Nicholls [and 4 others], 1772, 8°, third edition, (title soiled and with pen trials, lower margins dampstained, worm traces to margins in middle and later parts, X5r heavily soiled, corner of 2a4 creased, final leaves also soiled and stained with weakened fibres, final leaf holed causing slight loss to errata on veros, occasional old ink marks and marginalia), contemporary cald (spine restored with new lettering-piece). [Blake p. 272; Wellcome III, p. 520]

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LIND, James (1716-94). A Treatise on the Scurvy. In three parts. Containing an enquiry into the nature, causes, and cure, of that disease. Together with a critical and chronological view of what has been published on that subject ... the third edition enlarged, London: for C. Crowder, D. Wilson and G. Nicholls [and 4 others], 1772, 8°, third edition, (title soiled and with pen trials, lower margins dampstained, worm traces to margins in middle and later parts, X5r heavily soiled, corner of 2a4 creased, final leaves also soiled and stained with weakened fibres, final leaf holed causing slight loss to errata on veros, occasional old ink marks and marginalia), contemporary cald (spine restored with new lettering-piece). [Blake p. 272; Wellcome III, p. 520]
Provenance
John Hunter 57th Reg. Octr. 18, 1783, inscription to front pastedown.

Lot Essay

The third edition was improved, the author states in the Advertisement, "by the knowledge and experience acquired from an almost constant attendance ... on patients afflicted with the scurvy." During the years spent at Haslar, while England and France waged war (1758-63), Lind might see "three or four hundred scorbutic patients in a day." The results of all these clinical observations and of a large number of autopsies were summarised in a Postscript described by C. P. Stewart and Douglas Gutherie as "the most important part of the new material incorporated in the third edition" (Lind's Treatise on Scurvy, Edinburgh, 1953, p. 361).

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