MORTON, Richard (1637-1698). Phthisiologia seu exercitationes de phthisi tribus libris comprehensae. Totumque opus variis historiis illustratum. London: Samuel Smith, 1689.

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MORTON, Richard (1637-1698). Phthisiologia seu exercitationes de phthisi tribus libris comprehensae. Totumque opus variis historiis illustratum. London: Samuel Smith, 1689.

8o (189 x 111 mm). (Some minor browning and foxing to text, very small marginal tears on G1 and Dd2, not affecting text.) Contemporary blind-tooled panelled speckled calf, gilt edges (joints and spine worn, upper cover loose). Provenance: A. Holyoke (inscription); Essex Southern District Medical Society (label); Boston Medical Library (label).

FIRST EDITION. "The first application of the principles of pathology to the study of pulmonary tuberculosis" (GM), which Morton based on first-hand clinical observation, rather than the study of existing texts. The work also contains the first description of anorexia nervosa. Garrison-Morton 3216; NLM/Krivatsy 8132; Wing W-2831; Norman 1555.