Oct 18, 2005 - Sale 2052

Sale 2052 - Lot 22

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BALFOUR, FRANCIS. A Collection of Treatises on the Effects of the Sol-Lunar Influence in Fevers; with an Improved Method of curing them. 2 folding tables. 8vo, contemporary calf gilt with red morocco lettering piece. Cupar, 1815

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Third edition of an 1805 collection of writings by a surgeon with the East-India Company in Bengal concerning what he believed to be the influence of the sun and moon on the course of fevers. The volume reprints the text of books he previously published in Calcutta in 1784 and 1794, and Edinburgh in 1790 and 1791, and 2 journal articles from the 1794 and 1803 Transactions of the Asiatic Society. Front blank