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Author: Glisson, Francis
Title: De rachitide sive morbo puerili, qui vulgò the rickets dicitur, tractatus... adscitis in operis societatem Georgio Bate, & Ahasuero Regemortero
Place Published: London
Publisher:Typis Guil. Du-gardi; impensis Laurentii Sadler & Roberti Beaumont
Date Published: 1650
Description:

[32] (incl. front blank), 176, 175-382, 385-416. With numerous errors in pagination. A8, a8, B-2D8. Leaf A1 is a blank save for signature mark 'A' on recto. Woodcuts including diagrams, and illustrations of bones and corrective devices. (8vo) 16.5x11 cm (6¾x4¼"), period calf, rebacked with modern calf; custom clamshell box. First Edition.

First edition of the first clinical description of rickets with an early note on Barlow's disease (infantile scurvy). Heirs to Hippocrates notes that Glisson "was a graduate of Cambridge and Regius professor of physic there for more than forty years, although he was almost never in residence, as he carried on a busy medical practice in London. He was a founder of the Royal Society and one-time president of the Royal College of Physicians." Garrison-Morton 3729; Heirs of Hippocrates 474 (1682 ed.); Norman 910; Osler 2757; Waller 3589; Wellcome III, p. 126; Wing G854. This copy belonged to co-author Ahasuero Regemortero, signed by him at the end of the final page; there are a number of ink corrections, emendations, underlines and marginal marks to the text, apparently in his hand. With the bookplate of Haskell Norman.

Three blank leaves (endpaper, flyleaf & A1) detached at front, as a unit; Light damp-staining affecting last few leaves; mark on tp from deleted inscription; small rusthole to N3; library inkstamp on p. 101. Vary good condition.