SPILSBURY, Francis. Free Observations on the Scurvy, Gout, Diet, and Remedy. Rochester: printed by T. Fisher, sold by G. and T. Wilkie, 1785. 8° (208 x 122mm). Half-title. (Outer margin of first three leaves very lightly stained). 20th-century boards. Third edition. NLM/Blake p.428.

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SPILSBURY, Francis. Free Observations on the Scurvy, Gout, Diet, and Remedy. Rochester: printed by T. Fisher, sold by G. and T. Wilkie, 1785. 8° (208 x 122mm). Half-title. (Outer margin of first three leaves very lightly stained). 20th-century boards. Third edition. NLM/Blake p.428.

TROTTER, Thomas (1760-1832). Observations on the Scurvy. London: T. Longman and J. Watts, 1792. 8°. Half-title, errata at end. (Some spotting). 20th-century cloth-backed boards (spine a little sunfaded). Provenance: two erased inscriptions on title -- New Jersey library stamp (on title verso). Second edition. NLM/Blake p. 460; cf. Garrison & Morton 3716 (1786 edition).

With Edmund Litton's Philosophical Conjectures on Aereal Influences, the probable Origin of Diseases (London, 1747), and John Pringle's Six Discourses (London, 1783), both first editions; and John Norton's An Account of Remarkables Cures, performed by the Use of Maredant's Antiscorbutic Drops (London, 1774), first published 1772. (5)

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