Heberden, William.

An Introduction to the Study of Physic. With a Reprint of Herberden’s ‘Some Account of a Disorder of the Breast’.

Special reprint edition of New York, Paul B. Hoeber, 1929. New York, The Classics of Medicine Library, 1994. 13.5 cm x 19.5 cm. Portrait frontispiece, XI, 259 pages. With 6 additional illustrations. Beautifully bound Hardcover with gilt lettering and decoration on spine with raised bands. Gilt tooling to both boards. All edges gilt. With golden silk ribbon bookmark. Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Excellent condition. With protective mylar jacket. Ex-Libris bookplate of preowner on pastedown. Bookplate on front endpaper states that “This is copy number 541 of The Classics of Medicine Library edition”. [The Classics of Medicine Library]

Includes, for example, the following: Prefatory Essay / Heberden Bibliography / An Introduction to the Study of Physic by William Heberden / On Introductory Books / On Botany / On Chemistry / Of the Materia Medica / Of Pharmacy and Prescribing / Of Anatomy / Of Institutions / Of the History of Diseases and Their Cure / Of Surgery / Of Observation Writers & Miscellaneous Books / Of the Time for Beginning These Studies & of Common-place Books / Of the Ancient Greek & Latin Medical Writers / A Catalogue of the Book Recommended etc

Enclosed Ephemera: ‘Notes from the Editors’ 14-page booklet containing Introductory essays on Heberden by H.S Carter.

William Heberden (13 August 1710 – 17 May 1801) was an English physician.
William Heberden, who was also a classical scholar, published several papers in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society; and among his noteworthy contributions to the Medical Transactions (issued, largely at his suggestion, by the College of Physicians) were papers on chickenpox (1767) and angina pectoris (1768). His Commentarii de morborum historia et curatione, the result of notes made in his pocket-book at the bedside of his patients, were published in 1802 and again in 1807. In the year following the first edition, an English translation appeared, with a 3rd edition in 1806, and further publication in 1818. The English translations is believed to be from the pen of his son, William Heberden (1767–1845), also a distinguished scholar and physician, who attended King George III in his last illness. The eponymous Heberden’s nodes of osteoarthritis are named after William Heberden senior, who included a chapter on arthritis in his Commentaries on The History and Cure of Diseases. (Wikipedia)

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• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120341AB

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