discourse concerning fevers two letters di turner daniel 1667 ca 1741 (1 risultati)

Full title - A DISCOURSE CONCERNING FEVERS. IN TWO LETTERS TO A YOUNG PHYSICIAN. THE FIRST, DISSUADING FROM ALL HYPOTHESES AND THEORIES, WHETHER PHYSICAL OR MECHANICAL, AS VAIN AND DELUSIVE. THE SECOND, DIRECTING HIS REGIMEN FOR THE CURE, AND HIS CONDUCT TO THE SICK PERSON; WITH SOME SHORT, BUT GENERAL REMARKS UPON THE PULSE AND URINE, IN THE WAY OF POSTSCRIPT. AS ALSO UPON THE CRISES, AND CRITICAL DAYS IN FEVERS. THE THIRD EDITION, REVIS'D AND IMPROV'D. BY DANIEL TURNER, M.D. OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS IN LONDON. ***** Needs to be re-cased - sold as is. Revised and improved 3rd edition (preceded by editions published in 1727 and 1732). Collates as [ffep], [frontis], i-xii, 1-364, [rfep], [rp]. Hardcover: H 20cm x L 12.75cm. Missing front board; contemporary leather to spine and rear board; spine with five slightly raised bands but chipped at ends and without title label (although no indication that one was once present); splitting to rear joint but well scuffed and edge-worn rear board remains reasonably firm. With front board missing the first leaf is presumably the ffep (only a rfep at rear without a flyleaf so likely the same at front); small chipping and some tearing to ffep; toning throughout with some stains and soiling. Faded three-line ink ownership inscription at title page's top right perhaps dated 1835 with what looks to be same owner's signature "Wm Molliston[?]" in a more vibrant antiquarian ink inserted among upper center's title lettering. Text block remains firm. Book now presented in a trimmed clear Dura-Lar (polyester film) sheet forming a dj which modestly enhances the book's compromised shelf appearance. Acquired from a modest collection of eighteenth and early nineteenth century legal and medical works from a Columbus, Mississippi estate which had familial roots to the Maryland Eastern Shore and the hamlet of Cambridge in Dorchester County with descent from Maryland U.S. Representative and ambassador William Vans Murray (1760-1803) and/or his nephew William Vans Murray Robertson (1797 or 1799-1836). Cursory online research does not directly connect a William Molliston (if that handwriting deciphering is correct) to Murray or Robertson. However there are land document records in the 1750s and 1820s involving a William Molliston in Kent County, Delaware which does offer geographic proximity to Cambridge. Also Volume VIII of the "Journals of the Continental Congress" note that on Tuesday, August 12, 1777 "William Molliston be appointed a third lieutenant in the service of the United States." None of these records hint at a Molliston affiliated to the medical field which is not a prerequisite for ownership this tome but certainly a probable scenario. Of course there may not be a family descent linkage at all for books enter collections in more paths than lineage alone but this curious genealogical puzzle shall be inherited by the book's next owner.