Remarks on the Disease lately described by Dr. Hendy under the appellation of the Glandular Disease of the Barbadoes. Together with: A Letter to Dr. Martin Wall by Richard Kentish; Directions for an Extension of the Practice of Recovering Persons Apparently Dead; and Relief from Accidental Death or, Summary Directions in Verse by Alexander Johnson. Four titles in one.
by John Rollo; Richard Kentish and Alexander Johnson
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C. Dilly and The Logographic Press, 1785. Four exceedingly rare medical texts bound into one. The first, "Remarks on the Disease..."was published in 1785 and is 144 pp. This followed by an 8 page letter by Dr. Kentish to Dr. Wall, in which he describes a curious case afflicting an Italian musician in Oxford. Published 1786. Then "Directions for an Extension of the Practice of Recovering Persons Apparently Dead..."is an 8 page discourse on early CPR, followed by the rendering of the previous instructions into a verse over 16 pages, published in 1789.
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- Title
- Remarks on the Disease lately described by Dr. Hendy under the appellation of the Glandular Disease of the Barbadoes. Together with: A Letter to Dr. Martin Wall by Richard Kentish; Directions for an Extension of the Practice of Recovering Persons Apparently Dead; and Relief from Accidental Death or, Summary Directions in Verse by Alexander Johnson. Four titles in one.
- Author
- John Rollo; Richard Kentish and Alexander Johnson
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- C. Dilly and The Logographic Press
- Date Published
- 1785
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- Medical;
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