[Rarebooks] FS: Salmon's IATRICA. THE PRACTICE OF CURING, 1684: Nightmares, drunkeness, vertigo, etc.

[Charles Agvent]

SALMON, William IATRICA: SEU PRAXIS MEDENDI. THE PRACTICE OF CURING...
Th. Dawks London 1681 (1684) Second Edition.  Being a Medicinal History of many 
Famous Observations in the Cure of Diseases, performed by the Author hereof. 
Whereunto is added by Way of Scholia, a Complete Theory, or Method of Precepts, 
wherein the Names, Definitions, Kinds, Signs, Causes, Prognosticks, and various 
Waies of Cure are methodically Instituted, Digested and Reduced to Vulgar 
Practice, Together With several of the Choices Observations of other Famous 
Men.... Quarto (7-1/8" x 9-1/4") bound in contemporary calf with modern 
sympatheticand expert restoration at the spine and corners, one original brass 
clasp with remains of the other; gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. Engraved 
portrait frontispiece of Salmon. [xx], 762, [14] pages. Of the first edition of 
1681, Wing S432 notes only one location. The reason for this might be found in 
the Preface which states that the work is to be issued in weekly parts.  Salmon 
treated all diseases, sold prescriptions of his own device, cast horoscopes, and 
professed alchemy.  In this work Salmon offers treatments for nightmares, 
drunkeness, palsy, epilepsy, convulsions, headaches, vertigo, falling-sickness, 
etc. HEIRS OF HIPPOCRATES 429 (SEPLASIUM 1693): "Salmon was one of the earliest 
and most successful writers on popular science and medicine." The portrait and 
two title pages (one dated 1681, the other 1684) expertly extended at the inner 
margin; endpapers renewed.  Five pages with small tears and no loss except for 
one page number.  Fine, attractive copy with minor defects only.    $2500.00
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