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MIDDLETON, Peter (d. 1781). A medical discourse, or an historical inquiry into the ancient and present state of medicine: the substance of which was delivered at opening medical school in the city of New-York...Printed by Desire. New York: Hugh Gaine, 1769.
8o (176 x 110mm). Woodcut head-piece on B1r (lacking engraved portrait of Myles Cooper [present in some copies], two small holes in title, not affecting text, browned, some page corners chipped, scattered spotting). Disbound, edges sprinkled yellow; modern half red morocco clamshell box. Austin 1298; Evans 11338; Garrison & Morton 6380; Guerra a-436; Sabin 48866 (not noting the portrait); Norman 1509.
FIRST EDITION of the first American treatise on the history of medicine. Middleton was a founder of the medical school at King's College, now Columbia University, and the present is an expanded version of Middleton's address delivered at the school's opening on 2 November 1767. "Middleton is also noted for having performed one of the first dissections of a human body for the purposes of medical instruction recorded in America" (Norman). RARE: only a single copy has appeared at auction since 1979.
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FIRST EDITION of the first American treatise on the history of medicine. Middleton was a founder of the medical school at King's College, now Columbia University, and the present is an expanded version of Middleton's address delivered at the school's opening on 2 November 1767. "Middleton is also noted for having performed one of the first dissections of a human body for the purposes of medical instruction recorded in America" (Norman). RARE: only a single copy has appeared at auction since 1979.