[Rarebooks] FS: One of the earliest medical works to call the common cold "A Cold"

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(MEDICINE) White, E. L.   A POPULAR ESSAY ON THE DISORDER FAMILIARLY TERMED 
A COLD... To Which Are Added Annotations by J. Stuart, M.D. Philadelphia: 
Printed for Bradford & Insheep, et al. by T. and G. Palmer. 1808. 1st 
American edition. 12mo. (4),xxviii,248pp. Additional half-title for Stuart's 
"Annotations." Old marbled boards, nicely rebacked in calf. Uncut. Rare.     
$500.00 (trade discount allowed)
One of the earliest treatises employing the popular term "cold." Complete 
with symptoms and popular remedies of the day. The American edition appeared 
one year after the English edition, and has added to it 40pp. of new notes 
and comments about colds in America. Austin #2040.

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