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[005224] Harvey, Gideon. The Art of Curing Diseases By Expectation: With Remarks on a Supposed Great Case of Apoplectick Fits. Also Most Useful Observations on Coughs, Consumptions, Stone, Dropsies, Fevers, and Small Pox; with a Confutation of Dispensatories Etc. Etc. London: James Partridge, 1689. First Edition. 16mo. Hardback. Good+. [4], 224pp. Later dark green calf, raised bands, spine in six panels, title in gilt to second panel, author to fourth, remaining panels with single leafy stem tool, date to foot, covers with single line frame in blind, with leafy stem tool as corner pieces, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g., marbled endpapers, bound by Ramage, with their pallet to front inner edge
Some rubbing to extremities, spine lightly faded. Title mounted on stub with a small tear to fore edge, old paper repair to bottom margin of B12, light browning and foxing to text throughout. This edition with the semi-colon after the author’s name (the other with just a comma)
Gideon Harvey (c.1636-c.1702), Dutch / English physician. “Harvey was a man of some education and a prolific writer, but his works have no scientific value … One of his works, a collection of arbitrary criticisms of medical practice, ironically titled The Art of Curing Diseases by Expectation, gained some prominence on the continent, through the patronage of a far greater man, George Ernst Stahl, who published a Latin version with long notes of his own, imbued with a similar scepticism, and in this form it provoked some controversy” (Wikipedia)
Wing H1056; ESTC R15429; Wellcome III: 218
