[Medicine & Science] Blair, Patrick (d. 1728) Miscellaneous Observations in the Practise of Physick, Anatomy and Surgery. With New and Curious Remarks in Botany, Adorn'd with Copper Plates.
London: Printed for William Mears, 1718.
First edition, octavo, likely lacking a divisional title in preliminaries, illustrated with two full-page botanical illustrations; the text also includes the first documentation of undoubted pyloric stenosis; bound in contemporary speckled boards ruled in blind, gilt spine, rubbed, front joint somewhat cracking but still attached, 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.
In addition to Blair's contribution to the understanding of pyloric stenosis, he also mounted the bones of an elephant for the Royal Society.
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