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Richard Morton (and others) - Opera medica (...). Editio novissima (...) - Lugduni, Apud Petrum Bruyset et socios, 1737 - 2 volumes - (14)-155-1 white-(28)-163-(35)-207 -(8) pp., 3 tables pamphlets; (10)-84-(14)-103-(17)-72-(8)-100-40-(8)-44-160 pp. - 18X 23cm.
Condition: very good.
Full contemporary brown calf, decorated spine (some minor wear, some browning). Restoration at lower corner. external of f. 177/178 with loss of some letters. Nice copy.
Track and trace.
Professional packaging.
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Morton (1627-1698) was the first to apply the principles of pathology to the study of tuberculosis and to have given a clinical description of anorexia. Morton's works (including the treatise on smallpox) form the 1st vol. In the second one finds various other treatises - especially on smallpox - by Walter Harris (1647-1732), William Cole (1635-1716), Martin Lister (1636-1712) and Thomas Syndenham (1624-1689), Charles Leigh ( 1662-1701), Vincent Ketelaer, Antonio Sidobre... Precious collection of texts. 67338059
