[Rarebooks] FS: Medical work on menstruation. London: 1729

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(MEDICINE) Freind, John. EMMENOLOGIA: Written, in Latin, by the Late Learned 
Dr. John Freind. Translated into English by Thomas Dale, M.D. London: Printed 
for T. Cox. 1729. 8vo. First English edition. (16),216,(6)pp. With A1 (a leaf 
of ads before the title) plus (2)pp. of publisher’s ads. Illustrated with an 
engraved title page publisher’s device and several text drawings. Cont. 
speckled calf, front hinge cracked but holding soundly, spine label lacking.     
$600.00 (trade discount allowed)
Freind (1675-1728) was the first English historian of medicine. This work 
deals with women and “the nature of their menstruous purgation.” The first Latin 
edition was 1703.




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