[Rarebooks] FS: Salmon's THE PRACTICE OF CURING BEING A MEDICINAL HISTORY, 1684: alchemy, horoscopes, drunkenness, all with price dramatically reduced

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   Price reduced:  Was  $2500.00   Now  $1600.00

SALMON, William. IATRICA: SEU PRAXIS MEDENDI. THE PRACTICE OF CURING 
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.... London: Th. Dawks, 1681 (1684). Second Edition. Quarto 
(7-1/8" x 9-1/4") bound in contemporary calf with modern sympathetic and 
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, professed alchemy, and did just 
about everything except run for the Senate in Delaware. In this work 
Salmon offers treatments for nightmares, drunkenness, 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.         $1,600.00

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