De Purgantibus, in secunda Variolarum Confluentium Febre, adhibendis Epistolae.
Langerak: Lugduni Batavorum, 1734.
(16), 160, 24, (13) pages. Rubricated title. 12mo, uncut edges, stitched but without covers. Lugduni Batavorum: Langerak, 1734. Very good.
Two pamphlets dealing with the author's dispute with several medical colleagues over his views on fevers and smallpox that were published in commentaries to a 1717 Latin translation of Hippocrates. Freind was the first English historian of medicine; his book The History of Physick "was long regarded as an authoritative work, especially on English medieval and Renaissance medicine." DSB 5 157. See G-M 6378. Edition not in Blake or Osler.
Binding: Unbound
Condition: Very Good
Language: Latin
Price: $275.00
Item #14357