[Rarebooks] For Sale: Important medical work with notes by Benjamin Rush

[Norman Kane]

CLEGHORN, GEORGE, M.D.  OBSERVATIONS ON THE EPIDEMICAL DISEASES OF MINORCA FROM THE YEAR 1744 TO 1749 . . . [&] A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE CLIMATE, PRODUCTIONS, INHABITANTS, AND ENDEMIAL DISTEMPERS OF MINORCA. WITH NOTES BY BENJAMIN RUSH, M.D.  Philadelphia: printed for F. Nichols; Frey & Kammerer, printers, 1809.  First U.S. edition. Old mottled calf, new calf spine, bookplate of Edward J. Brockett, xvii, blank leaf, 184 pages. Many Notes, some lengthy. Garrison/Morton 1674 (1751 edn.): "Cleghorn left a good account of several diseases and conditions not previously observed, among them epidemic jaundice. He included in his book accounts of many post-mortems."  SCARCE: 5 copies in OCLC; no auction records; not on line.  $450.00
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