Mar 16, 2006 - Sale 2072

Sale 2072 - Lot 29

Unsold
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
BLACKALL, JOHN. Observations on the Nature and Cure of Dropsies, and particularly on the Presence of the Coagulable Part of the Blood in Dropsical Urine. 8vo, original boards, rebacked retaining original backstrip, spine ends chipped, top edge of front cover repaired; uncut. Publisher's 16-page catalogue dated March 1815 bound in front. London, 1814 [i. e., 1815]

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Second edition of a work first published the year before. "Blackall was before Bright in detecting albuminuria in association with dropsy. His book, of which the second edition is more important than the first, includes reports of cases of angina pectoris"--Garrison-Morton 2209.