A Concise Relation of the Effects of an Extraordinary Styptic, lately discovered in a Series of Letters, from several Gentlemen of the Faculty and from the Patients, to Barth. Ruspini, Surgeon-Dentist to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Published by London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1787
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8vo, xiii, [1], 124 pp., original paper wrappers, uncut, stitched as issued, a nice copy. "There was hardly a more fantastic figure of the time than Ruspini, dentist to the Prince of Wales, and founder of the Freemason's School of Female Children. A conspicuous entertainer of distinguished foreigners, he in this way received the title Chevalier. Ruspini, noted for his wonderful Balsamic Styptic, a favourite remedy for over a hundred years." - Weinberger, History of Dentistry 1, pp. 332-334. Blake, p.394; This edition not in Wellcome; the L, AWn, CaOTU and DNLM copies in the ESTC. Guerini, History of Dentistry, pp.343-4.
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- Title
- A Concise Relation of the Effects of an Extraordinary Styptic, lately discovered in a Series of Letters, from several Gentlemen of the Faculty and from the Patients, to Barth. Ruspini, Surgeon-Dentist to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
- Author
- RUSPINI (Bartholomew) Editor.
- Publisher
- London: Printed for J. Johnson
- Publication year
- 1787
- Binding
- Soft cover
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- Medicine
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