CULLEN, William (1710-1790). Synopsis nosologiae methodicae -Pars secunda. Genera morborum definita. Edinburgh, 1769.

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CULLEN, William (1710-1790). Synopsis nosologiae methodicae -Pars secunda. Genera morborum definita. Edinburgh, 1769.

8/so (201 x 119 mm). Contemporary calf-backed boards (marbled paper renewed, joints rubbed). Provenance: Archibald Goodsir (signature on title dated 23 December 1800); John Goodsir (signature on title, the father or grandgather of the following); John Goodsir (1814-1867), anatomist who wrote works on the growth of teeth and "Centres of nutrition," which were collected in Anatomical and pathological observations (Norman 915) (signature on title-page); Ralph Hermon Major (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION of Cullen's famous work in which he classified diseases into four categories: fevers, neurosis, cachexias and local disorders. "Cullen was the foremost British clinical teacher of his time, one of the first to give clinical lectures in Great Britain" (Garrison-Morton). The second part contains synopses of Franois Bossier de Sauvage's Nosologia methodica (first published 1763), Linnaeus' Genera morborum (1763), and Vogel's Definitiones generum morborum (1764). Garrison-Morton 2204; Norman 539.

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CULLEN, William. Synopsis and Nosology, being an Arrangement and Definition of Diseases. Hartford [Conn.]: Nathaniel Patten, 1792. 8/so (147 x 86 mm). Contemporary calf. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, variant issue title-imprint without "Printed by Nathaniel Patten for Isaiah Thomas, Worcester, Mass..." Austin 580 (Isaiah Thomas imprint); see Evans 24237 (Isaiah Thomas imprint); Norman 540. (2)