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Author / Creator: | Heberden, William, 1710-1801. |
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Uniform title: | Commentarii de morborum historia et curatione. English |
Imprint: | Boston : Wells and Lilly, 1818. |
Description: | xi, 418 p. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
Local Note: | University of Chicago Library's copy 1 from the Stanton A. Friedberg, M.D. Rare Book Collection of Rush University Medical Center at the University of Chicago. |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8211035 |
Item Description: | Preface dated Aug., 1782. "William Heberden" (biography): p. [iii]-v. "Appendix" (p. [393]-416): 1. A sketch of a preface designed for the Medical transactions, 1767. - 2. Observations on the chronical rheumatism. - 3. On the pulse - 4. On opening a vein in haemorrhages. Translation by William Heberden, Jr., of the author's Commentarii de morborum historia et curatione. The work was published posthumously in London in 1802 in both Latin and English. The manuscript copy, to which is ascribed the date 1782,in the Library of the Royal College of Physicians, has title: Collectanea spectantia ad historia morborum et remediorum. "A few verbal alterations and some rearrangement of the chapters were made by the son." - Crummer, Leroy. "A prefatory essay" in his edition of Heberden's An introduction to the study of physic, 1929, p. 12 and 64. |
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Physical Description: | xi, 418 p. ; 23 cm. |