Price: £400
Subject: Sciences
Published Date: 1766
Stock Number: 51780
(Your basket is currently empty)Quam annuente summo numine, ex auctoritate Reverendi admodum viri, Gulielmi Robertson [...] Ad diem 26 Augusti, hora locoque solitis.
Description: FIRST EDITION; inscribed on the half-title 'For Mr. Keay, from his ob[edien]t h[umble] [servant], the Author'; date of the viva supplied in manuscript on the title page; pp. [8], 44, 8vo, with the half-title; red speckled edges, disbound.Publication Details: Edinburgh: J. Bruce and Co., 1766
Notes: The published doctoral dissertation, in Latin, of one who later made an important contribution to Georgian medical quantification by his analysis of the spa waters of Bath. Within a decade of passing the viva for the present work, William Falconer (1744-1824) set up in Bath and was elected to the Bath Hospital. Along with his contemporary Sir John Floyer, Falconer became well-known as a balneologist; he conducted research into natural springs and their impact on chronic conditions such as gout and rheumatism.'Though greatly esteemed, William Falconer was not a popular man. As the nineteenth-c...more
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