MORTON, RICHARD. Phthisiologia; seu, Exercitationes de phthisi tribus libris comprehensae. [24], 411, [5] pages, including initial license leaf, penultimate errata leaf, and final blank. 8vo, 188x114 mm, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, cover corners restored; occasional marginal dampstaining, gathering 2A heavily offset. Early signatures of H. Bowen on license leaf and John Robertson on title; modern bookplates of W. E. Stanley Merrett and Kenneth Rapoport. London: Samuel Smith, 1689
first edition. "The first application of the principles of pathology to the study of pulmonary tuberculosis. Morton, like Sydenham, based his work on his own clinical observations, with very few references to books . . . the first chapter contains the first description of anorexia nervosa"--Norman 1555. Garrison-Morton 3216; Wing M2831.
