Elliot’s Medical Pocket-book..
Bound in original quarter linen over cloth, with original paper spine label. Extremities worn. Lacks blank first free endpaper. Some foxing and staining but otherwise good interior.. Label of J. F. Heathcoat, Chemist and Druggist, 4, Gallowtree-Gate, Leicester pasted on half title. Label of Thos. Heathcoat on front pastedown and stamped at top of title with signature.
£120.00
Publisher
Printed for Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange.,
Place
London
Date
1831
Synopsis
Containing a short but plain account of the symptoms and treatment of diseases, with the properties and doses of the principal substances used medicinally. a new edition. including the history, mode of preparation, form and doses of the new medicines, etc. the whole carefully revised, improved, and augmented by a medical practitioner of st. thomas's and guy's hospitals.
Item Description
8vo. 4.25 x 7 inches. [viii] + 244 pp. Half title.
Notes
A single alphabetical sequence of conditions, diseases and medicines. This popular short guide was first published in 1781 and appeared in numerous editions into the nineteenth century. ESTC and many of the COPAC entries ascribe it's authorship to the fashionable London physician, Sir John Elliot (1736-86). His DNB entry, however, states that this doctor did not publish anything and that the actual author is John Elliot MD (1747-87) who carried out important work on sensory physiology including the observation of light and colours. Monk died in Newgate, awaiting trial for assault after discharging a pistol in the presence of his beloved and her companion. A list of his publications, ascribed to Sir John Elliot appears in the Royal College of Physicians Munk's Roll, Lives of the Fellows. This is a reprint of the 1827 edition by another publisher, which doesn't appear in COPAC and was owned by a Leicester chemist.
[Stock No. 21917]
Subjects
18th Century • 19th Century • Medicine • Natural History/Science