Richard Morton - Pyretologia - 1692-1694
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Two-volume first edition Latin work Pyretologia by Richard Morton on fevers, 1692–1694, 1104 pages, in red cloth ex-library Birmingham Medical Institute, good condition.
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RARE nice set of first edition of Morton’s 2 volume treatise on fevers
Richard Morton
[Pyretologia] seu exercitationes de morbis universalibus acutis.
London: Samuel Smith, 1692
(80)+430+(18) pp; 2 folded tables (with little tears), missing frontispice portrait (xerox added)
Newer binding in red cloth (20x12cm, shelf worn, front cover bit loose); ex-library (on spine: ‘Birmingham Medical Institute’), foxing, pages yellowed
[Pyretologias], pars altera: sive, exercitatio de febribus inflammatoriis universalibus.
London: Samuel Smith & Benjamin Walford, 1694
(48)+511+(1)+(16) pp; frontispice portrait (engraved by R. White)
Newer binding in red cloth (20x12cm, shelf worn); portrait & title page a bit soiled; worm hole lower margin first pages (without loss of text); ex-library (on spine: ‘Birmingham Medical Institute’), foxing, pages yellowed
Morton’s “Pyretologia or general treatise on fevers” contains many interesting cases (including an account of his own illness in 1690) and one of the most systematic and thorough accounts of the malarial fevers of that date
RARE nice set of first edition of Morton’s 2 volume treatise on fevers
Richard Morton
[Pyretologia] seu exercitationes de morbis universalibus acutis.
London: Samuel Smith, 1692
(80)+430+(18) pp; 2 folded tables (with little tears), missing frontispice portrait (xerox added)
Newer binding in red cloth (20x12cm, shelf worn, front cover bit loose); ex-library (on spine: ‘Birmingham Medical Institute’), foxing, pages yellowed
[Pyretologias], pars altera: sive, exercitatio de febribus inflammatoriis universalibus.
London: Samuel Smith & Benjamin Walford, 1694
(48)+511+(1)+(16) pp; frontispice portrait (engraved by R. White)
Newer binding in red cloth (20x12cm, shelf worn); portrait & title page a bit soiled; worm hole lower margin first pages (without loss of text); ex-library (on spine: ‘Birmingham Medical Institute’), foxing, pages yellowed
Morton’s “Pyretologia or general treatise on fevers” contains many interesting cases (including an account of his own illness in 1690) and one of the most systematic and thorough accounts of the malarial fevers of that date
Details
Number of Books
2
Subject
Medicine
Book Title
Pyretologia
Author/ Illustrator
Richard Morton
Condition
Good
Publication year oldest item
1692
Publication year youngest item
1694
Height
20 cm
Edition
1st Edition
Width
12 cm
Language
Latin
Original language
Yes
Number of pages
1104
