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SYDENHAM, Thomas (1624-1689). Observationes medicae circa morborum acutorum historiam et curationem. London: Andrew Clark for Walter Kettilby, 1676.
8o (177 x 115 mm). (Lacks portrait.) Contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance: Otto Orren Fisher (bookplate, his sale, part II, Swann, 5 April 1979, lot 903).
FIRST EDITION of the revised version of Sydenham's book on fevers, first published in 1666 under the title Methodus curandi febres, entirely rewritten and considerably enlarged. "It contains his important study on epidemiology and is one of the fundamental texts in this branch of medicine, with numerous observations on epidemics in London from 1661 to 1675" (Heirs of Hippocrates). The volume is from the library of Nicolas Fouquet (1615-1680), finance minister to Louis XIV in the early years of his reign. After his death the book entered the library of the College of Jesuits in Paris, and was later owned by the physician Joseph Ignace Guillotin (1738-1814), who was, in the early years of the French Revolution, responsible for reviving the decapitation machine that bears his name. Garrison-Morton 2198; Grolier Medicine 35 (this copy exhibited); Heirs of Hippocrates 549; NLM/Krivatsy 11627; Norman 2038; Osler 994; Waller 9402; Wing S-6314.
8o (177 x 115 mm). (Lacks portrait.) Contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance: Otto Orren Fisher (bookplate, his sale, part II, Swann, 5 April 1979, lot 903).
FIRST EDITION of the revised version of Sydenham's book on fevers, first published in 1666 under the title Methodus curandi febres, entirely rewritten and considerably enlarged. "It contains his important study on epidemiology and is one of the fundamental texts in this branch of medicine, with numerous observations on epidemics in London from 1661 to 1675" (Heirs of Hippocrates). The volume is from the library of Nicolas Fouquet (1615-1680), finance minister to Louis XIV in the early years of his reign. After his death the book entered the library of the College of Jesuits in Paris, and was later owned by the physician Joseph Ignace Guillotin (1738-1814), who was, in the early years of the French Revolution, responsible for reviving the decapitation machine that bears his name. Garrison-Morton 2198; Grolier Medicine 35 (this copy exhibited); Heirs of Hippocrates 549; NLM/Krivatsy 11627; Norman 2038; Osler 994; Waller 9402; Wing S-6314.