[Rarebooks] FS: A "new" (1797) remedy for the plague.

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(MEDICINE) Berchtold, Leopold von, Count. DESCRIZIONE DEL NUOVO RIMEDIO CURATIVO E PRESERVATIVO CONTRO LA PESTE. Presentemento Usato con Felicissimo Successo Nello Spedale di Sant' Antonio in Smirne... Distribuita Gratuitamente a Favore delle Nazioni... Levante, e Colla Barbaria. Vienna: Stampato da Francesco Antonio Schraembl. 1797. 12mo. 28pp. Later marbled paper wrappers. Small water stain on title and some light soiling of first 3 and final leaves.    $175.00 (trade discount allowed)

Instructions for the countries of the Levant and points east on how to deal with the plague (which had already been eradicated in Europe).  National Library of Medicine (18th. century) p,42.

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