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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 minor marginal dampstaining, gathering 2A heavily offset. Contemporary signature of H. Bowen on license leaf; 18th-century signature of John Robertson on title; 20th-century bookplate of W. E. Stanley Merrett. 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.
