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POTT, Percival.
OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE AND CONSEQUENCES of those Injuries to which the Head is liable from External Violence. To which are added, some few General Remarks on Fractures and Dislocations.

London: L. Hawes, W. Clarke, and R. Collins, 1768. Title for both parts, title, [2]page dedication, 276 pages. Title for second part, [2], 126 pages. The first part has three full-page engraved plates; the second two full-page engraved plates. Octavo. Possibly contemporary marbled boards, re-backed sometime in the twentieth century. Small area of restoration to the blank margin of the general title, which is a little browned, and to the blank margin of the first title; pages 113 to 122 of the second part have some damage to the very fore-edges; pages 123 to 126 have more serious damage, with restoration of blank corners and fore-edges, together with browning and creasing. This damage would have been sustained when the…
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London: L. Hawes, W. Clarke, and R. Collins, 1768. Title for both parts, title, [2]page dedication, 276 pages. Title for second part, [2], 126 pages. The first part has three full-page engraved plates; the second two full-page engraved plates. Octavo. Possibly contemporary marbled boards, re-backed sometime in the twentieth century. Small area of restoration to the blank margin of the general title, which is a little browned, and to the blank margin of the first title; pages 113 to 122 of the second part have some damage to the very fore-edges; pages 123 to 126 have more serious damage, with restoration of blank corners and fore-edges, together with browning and creasing. This damage would have been sustained when the book was dis-bound. Observations… was first published in 1760. Some few General Remarks in 1765. The above is the first combined edition. Garrison and Morton 5577 & 4408 for the first individual editions.
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[HAECKEL, Ernst.]
Sonderabdruck au der Deutschen Medizinischen Wochenschrift. No 40. 1910. Redkteur: Prof. Dr. J. Schwalbe.

Leipzig: Georg Thieme, This 8 page pamphlet is entitled Die Grenzen der Naturwissenschaft. Von Ernst Haeckel. It is insc.
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EISENBERG, John.
Surgical and Practical Observations on the DISEASES OF THE HUMAN FOOT: with instructions for their treatment. To which is added advice on the management of the hand.

London: Henry Renshaw, 1845. xii, xiv, 252 pages. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. 28.8 x 22 xm. First edition. Spine expertly repaired, but boards rubbed and a little worn at corners and edges; else a very good, clean copy.
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HARVEY, Gideon.
THE ART OF CURING DISEASES BY EXPECTATION: With Remarks on a supposed great Case of Apoplectick Fits. Also most useful Observations on Coughs, Consumptions, Stone Dropsies, Fevers, and Small Pox; with a Consutation of Dispensatories, and other various Discourses in Physick. By Gideon Harvey; M.D. their Majesties Physician of the Tower, and Fellow of the College of Physicians of the Hague.

London: James Partridge at the Post-House between Charing Cross and White-hall, 1689. [4], 224 pages. Bound in full morocco by Ramage. All edges gilt. 150 x 85 mm. First edition. Short tear in title; some occasional light marking and browning; else a very good copy of a very scarce book. .
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CHEYNE, George.
THE ENGLISH MALADY: or, A Treatise of Nervous Diseases of all Kinds, as Spleen, Vapours, Lowness of Spirits, Hypochonadriacal, and Hysterical Distempers, & c. In Three Parts. Part I. Of the Nature and Cause of Nervous Distempers. Part II. Of the Cure of Nervous Distempers. Part III. Variety of Cases that illustrate and confirm the Method of Cure. With the Author’s own Case at large.

London: G. Strahan, 1733. [6], xxxii, [2], 370, [6 catalogue.]pp. Recently finely rebound in full sprinkled calf, gilt, with red label. Octavo. First edition. Little browning at front and rear; else a very good copy in a handsome binding. Garrison and Morton 4840. ‘Cheyne attributed hypochondria (“Cheyne’s disease”) to the moisture of the air and variability of the weather in the British Isles
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CULPEPPER, Nicholas.
THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED with Three Hundred and Sixty-Nine Medicines, made of English Herbs, that were not in any impression until this. Being an Astrologo-Physical discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation, containing a complete Method of Physic, whereby a Man may preserve his Body in Health, or cure himself, being sick, for Three-pence Charge, with such Things only as grow in England, they being most fit for English Bodies. Herein is also shewed, 1. The way of making Plaisters, Ointments, Oils, Poultices, Syrups, Decoctions, Juleps, or Waters of all Sorts of Physical Herbs, that you may have them ready for your Use at all Times of the Year - 2. What Planet Governeth every Herb or Tree (used in physic) that groweth in England. - 3. The Time of gathering all Herbs, both Vulgarly and Astrologically. - 4. The way of drying and keeping the Herbs all the Year. - 5. The Way of keeping their Juice ready for Use at all Times. - 6. The Way of making and keeping all Kinds of useful Compounds made of Herbs. - 7. The Way of mixing Medicines according to the Cause and Mixture of the Disease, and Part of the Body afflicted. By Nich. Culpepper, Gent. Student in Physic and Astrology.

London: J. Scatcherd…, [1801]. [12], 348 pages. Contemporary sheep recently re-backed in sheep gilt with a black title label. 12mo. The date has been crossed out in ink and the ink over time has worn away the paper; boards rubbed and the corners worn; else very good.
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