Dissertatio medica, inauguralis, de Febre remittenta putrida paludum quae grassabatur in Bengalia A. D. 1762...
Edinburgi [i.e. Edinburgh].
Apud Balfour, auld, et smellie, 1768.
First edition.
8vo.
[6], 44pp. With an engraved folding map. Modern grey paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Head of title page shaved with some loss to text, offsetting, scattered spotting.
The first edition of the inaugural dissertation of physician James Lind (1736-1812) - published in the year of his graduation from the university of Edinburgh - concerning a fever that ravaged Bengal in 1762.
An English translation, published as A Treatise on the putrid and remitting Marsh Fever which raged at Bengal in the year 1762, appeared in 1776.
An English translation, published as A Treatise on the putrid and remitting Marsh Fever which raged at Bengal in the year 1762, appeared in 1776.
ESTC T7890.
£ 375.00
Antiquates Ref: 31477
