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[FLOYER, John] [A] Treatise of the Asthma ... a history of the fit, and the symptoms preceeding them ... the Cacochymia which disposes to the Fit .... the accidental causes of the fit ... the cure of the Asthma Fit ..., London: Richard Wilkin, 1698. Small 8°, title within ruled border (top of title excised with loss of letter 'A' of title and part of ruled border, lightly soiled and spotted), contemporary calf (lightly worn); margins of recto and verso of title, first page of dedication and B2 verso heavily annotated in an 18th-century hand in ink; extensive pencil marks throughout; bookplate of Edmund Batty, Melton-Mowbray (1834). FIRST EDITION. GM 3166; Wellcome III, p. 34; Wing F1390.
"Floyer provided the first clear descriptions of cases of bronchial asthma" and "recognized the influence of heredity in asthma" The work also includes "an important early account of emphysema, from a post mortem on a broken-winded horse" (GM).
"Floyer provided the first clear descriptions of cases of bronchial asthma" and "recognized the influence of heredity in asthma" The work also includes "an important early account of emphysema, from a post mortem on a broken-winded horse" (GM).
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