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A Practical Essay on the Small-Pox: Wherein A Method of preparing the Body before the Disease comes on, and of deriving the Variolous Matter from the Vital to the Remote Parts of the Body after the Accession, in order to prevent the fatal Consequences which too often attend it, is proposed; a Method of curing the Small-Pox by Resolution, or taking off the Inflammation, is recommended. Together with an Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of this Disease. The Second Edition, with Additions. To which is added, An Account of the principal Variations of the Weather, and the concomitant Epidemic Diseases, as they appeared at Rippon, and the circumjacent Parts of Yorkshire, from the Year 1726, to the End of 1734. By William Hillary, M.D. at Bath. London: Printed for C. Hitch, at the Red-Lion in Paternoster Row; and J. Leake, at Bath. 1740. Early leather binding, 161 pp, 72 pp, 7.75 x 5", 12mo. In fair condition. Leather boards scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Gilt ruling around edges of boards chipped form normal shelf-wear, but still attractive. Front hinge beginning to split at head and tail. Head and tail of spine chipped, headbands remain intact. Leather chipped on front board, close to fore-edge. Gilt ruling on spine rubbed, but attractive. Preliminary pages lacking - text begins at title page. Bookplate found on front paste-down: Thomas Frognall Dibdin. Previous ownership old-hand ink signature found at top edge of front paste-down: E. D. Phillips. Title page exhibits toning around edges. Normal age-related toning throughout text-block. Ink old-hand marginalia throughout text-block. Binding intact, hinges worn. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. William Hillary (1697-1763) was an English physician, known as the author of tropical diseases. Hillary's background was a Quaker family in Wensleydale, Yorkshire. He was a pupil of Hermann Boerhaave at Leyden University, where he graduated M.D. in 1722, writing a dissertation on intermittent fevers. He began in medical practice at Ripon, moving to Bath, Somerset in 1734 and to Barbados in 1752. He was an observer of weather and prevalent diseases. His records began at Ripon in 1726, a year in advance of the corresponding work by Clifton Wintringham senior at York. They resumed in Barbados, and continued until he left the colony in 1748. The first series was published in the appendix to his second edition of Rational and Mechanical Essay on the Small-pox, London, 1740 (this edition). A Nice Second Edition, the first edition to include the Weather Observations. RAREB1740DOPX 05/24 - HK1553. Seller Inventory # RAREB1740DOPX
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