Practical Observations on Venereal, Scorbutic, and Consumptive Diseases, &c. with Select Cases

Neale, Mr [Henry St. John]

Verlag: Printed for R. Faulder, New Bond-Street; and J. Walker, Pater-Noster-Row, London, 1788

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Boards rubbed and worn with loss of leather along edges of corners. Joints in good condition. 1/4" chip to leather at head of spine. 1" blank page corner missing to one contents leaf. Creasing to front free endpaper. ; Rare. "The Fourth Edition, with Large Additions". [xvi], xix, [1], 274 pages. Dimensions: 8 3/8" by 5 1/8". Half-leather and marbled boards. Red morocco spine label: "NEALE'S / OBSERVATION" Title continues: "Shewing the Treatment of each, and the Variety of Symptoms attending them; Carefully noted down during the Indisposition of the Patients. To which are added, Interesting Remarks on Animal Poisons Made by the Author during the late War in North America. By Mr. Neale, Late Surgeon of his Majesty's Fifth Regiment of Infantry, to the Royal Hospital of Chatham, and Surgeon in London." The Introduction begins: "The venereal disease, which, according to historians of the most undoubted credit, is a native of some of the American isalnds, especially Hispaniola, was brought into Spain near the end of the fifteenth Century, and thence carried into Naples [.]". "Some of the tribes of Indians, in the back parts of America, eat the serpents which they happen to kill in their hunting parties; such as the horned, the rattle, and the mukasoe snakes. [.] This curious circumstance I often had related to me by many of the sage farmers of North America, when I was in that part of the world; some of them of a very philosophic turn of mind: but it is very ingeniously related to me of late by a gentleman of strict honour and integrity, a native of North Carolina, who being a staunch loyalist, forsook an ample fortune in that country to support the royal cause. The following instance he has related to me among many. That he was once present, when a rattle sake, about three feet and half in length, had bit a horse as he was feeding in a meadow which had been mowed. The snake being observed by some workmen, was instantly surrounded by them, who, with long sticks, confined the animal to a small spot of ground in the same meadow. He several times attempted to direct his course to thick cover but care was taken to prevent him, till upwards o two hours was elapsed [.] " - pages 72-73. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 4838

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Titel: Practical Observations on Venereal, ...

Verlag: Printed for R. Faulder, New Bond-Street; and J. Walker, Pater-Noster-Row, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1788

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket

Auflage: Fourth Edition.