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WILLIS, THOMAS. Diatribae duae medico-philosophicae, quarum prior agit de fermentatione . . . altera de febribus . . . his accessit dissertatio epistolica de urinis. . . editio tertia. [44], 376 pages, including engraved allegorical additional title. 12mo, contemporary calf, bottom of spine stamped "Magdalene/Hall/Library" in gilt at a later date, spine heavily worn, chipped at top, front cover detached, rear joint cracked, cords intact; old inscriptions in upper and lower margins of additional title, contents otherwise clean. The Hague: Adrianus Vlacq, 1662
Willis's first book, a collection of tracts on fermentation, fevers, and urine, originally published in 1659. The first text "contains the earliest suggestion that fermentation is an intestinal or internal motion of particles" (Garrison-Morton); the second contains the first description of epidemic typhoid; and the third notes the sweet taste of urine in diabetes mellitus. Garrison-Morton 2464 and 5020 (London original edition); Krivatsy 13024 (this edition).
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