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BEDDOES, Thomas (1760-1808). Hygia: or Essays Moral and Medical, on the causes affecting the personal state of our middling and affluent classes. Bristol: J. Mills for R. Phillips, 1802-03.
3 volumes, 8o (209 x 126 mm). Contemporary tree calf, smooth spine gilt with red and black lettering pieces (minor wear to joints and edges). Provenance: L.H. Master (signature on title-page in third volume); Charles Legh Hoskins Master (engraved armorial bookplates).
FIRST EDITION. This collection of essays includes "On the nature and prevention of some of the disorders, commonly called nervous," one of the most comprehensive early studies of incipient epilepsy (essay 9). "The tenth essay, a continuation of the ninth, includes Beddoes' plea for exact terminology to describe mental diseases, and his proposal that full-blown insanity should be studied in conjunction with incipient madness in order to gain the knowledge necessary for treatment and prevention" (Norman). Each essay is separately paginated and contains a section title.
"The N.U.C. calls for a portrait, possibly in error, as neither the Norman copy nor the copy at the University of Chicago possesses one" (Norman). Hunter-Macalpine, pp. 578-83; Wellcome II, p. 129; Norman 160. (3)
3 volumes, 8
FIRST EDITION. This collection of essays includes "On the nature and prevention of some of the disorders, commonly called nervous," one of the most comprehensive early studies of incipient epilepsy (essay 9). "The tenth essay, a continuation of the ninth, includes Beddoes' plea for exact terminology to describe mental diseases, and his proposal that full-blown insanity should be studied in conjunction with incipient madness in order to gain the knowledge necessary for treatment and prevention" (Norman). Each essay is separately paginated and contains a section title.
"The N.U.C. calls for a portrait, possibly in error, as neither the Norman copy nor the copy at the University of Chicago possesses one" (Norman). Hunter-Macalpine, pp. 578-83; Wellcome II, p. 129; Norman 160. (3)