[Rarebooks] fa: PRAXIS MEDICA/THE PRACTICE OF PHYSICK: DR. SYDENHAM'S PROCESSUS INTEGRI - 1716

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[Thomas Sydenham:] Praxis Medica. The Practice of Physick: or, Dr. Sydenham’s Processus Integri, Translated out of Latin into English, with large Annotations, Animadversions and Practical Observations on the same. Containing The Names, Places, Signs, Causes, Prognosticks, and Cures, of all the most Usual and Popular Diseases afflicting the Bodies of Human Kind, according to the most approved Modes of Practice. Among which you have The Pathology, and Various Methods of Curing A CLAP, or Virulent Running of the Reins, and the French Pox, with all their Attendent Symptoms, beyond whatever was yet publish’d on this Subject by any other Author, Ancient or Modern, since the Disease first appeared in the World, to this Day. The Third Edition, Inlarged throughout, with some Thousands of Additions not in the first Impression. By William Salmon, M.D. London: Printed for J. Knapton at the Crown, and W. Innys, at the Prince’s-Arms in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1716. Period paneled calf with gilt-stamped morocco spine label; 8vo (20 cm); [16], 480[i.e.580], [4] pp. (erratic pagination but text & register are continuous); engraved portrait frontispiece. ESTC N20916.

A translation of the complete second edition of Sydenham's Processus integri, with nine chapters and many notes added by William Salmon. The prominence given to "the clap" in the work's subtitle says something about eighteenth-century English mores. Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689) has been called the "English Hippocrates" and the Father of English medicine. "One of the greatest figures in internal medicine,… his  reputation rests on his first-hand accounts of such conditions as the malarial fevers of his times, gout, scarlatina, measles, etc." (Garrison, Heirs of Hippocrates).

Some rubbing to the boards and extremities with shallow loss to the spine head and foot; front and rear joints cracked, with the front board secured by the cords; front free endpaper and paste-down with the printed book label of Henry Knight, small library ink stamp, ownership signature of "T.H. Smith, Alcester, 1901", and signed presentation label by Dr. Smallwood Savage (early 20th-century English obstetrician); small early ink correction to title-page; light browning and dust-soiling to the last three leaves (the index), mild toning to the leaves with a few occasional small spots; otherwise clean and sound.