<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times" FAMILY="SERIF" SIZE="3">(MEDICINE) Harvey, Gideon. THE ART OF CURING DISEASES BY EXPECTATION. With Remarks on a Supposed Great Case of Apoplectick Fits. Also Most Useful Observations on Coughs, Consumptions, Stone, Dropsies, Fevers, and Small Pox; with a Confutation of Dispensatories, and Other Various Discourses in Physick. London: Printed for James Partridge. 1689. First (and only) edition in English. 12mo. (4),224pp. Title within a ruled border. Cont. vellum, a bit soiled, foot of spine torn, hand-lettered front cover. Bookplate on front pastedown. $2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times" FAMILY="SERIF" SIZE="3"><I>The author (1640-1700?) takes issue with many of the “cures” of his day such as bleeding patients and the medicinal use of iron snad steel. His prescient main thesis is that many cures are more attributable to trust in the physician than the medications prescribed. Wing H1056. The only edition and very scarce.<BR>
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