The Medical Casebook of William Brownrigg, M.D., F.R.S. (1712-1800) of the Town of Whitehaven in Cumberland [Medical History, Supplement No. 13]

Ward, Jean E.; Joan Yell (Edited and Translated by). The Medical Casebook of William Brownrigg, M.D., F.R.S. (1712-1800) of the Town of Whitehaven in Cumberland [Medical History, Supplement No. 13]. London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1993. First edition. Quarto. XVII, [2], 176pp. Original blue cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover. Remarkable transcription of Doctor William Brownrigg’s casebook containing a variety of cases, observations and letters dating from 1737 to 1742. It also contains descriptions of his patients and remedies and some of the earliest English references to puerperal fever. This work is complete with its four full-page b/w photographic reproductions. Binding and interior in overall very good condition. vg. Hardcover. (32150) $75