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Nabu Press, 2010-01-11. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008-10-01. Paperback. Good.

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Philadelphia; James Humphreys, and Benjamin and Thomas Kite, January 1808. Hardcover. Good. Original calf binding and spine; front cover nearly detached; chips to top and bottom of spine; some foxing and light staining to text

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Philadelphia: For James Humphreys, and for Benjamin and Thomas Kite, 1808. First US Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes in one. xvi, [17]-430pp + 2pp of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary full tree calf, red leather label on the spine lettered in gold. Wear to extremities, front joint partially cracked, small loss to head of spine, toning and foxing to pages, a few faint stains to upper edge, some old wormholes to endpapers. A good copy. ; Octavo.

James Humphreys & Benjamin & Thomas Kite, 1808. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. 2 vols. bound in 1. 1st American ed. xvi + (17) 430 p. Bound in contemporary leather. Good binding and cover. Minor wear to extremities. Chipping and loss to head and tail of spine. Splitting starting. Two contemporary signatures written on title page and inside front board, John G. Mobley. Clean, unmarked pages with minor toning. Please feel free to view our photographs.

Philadelphia: Printed for James Humphreys, and for Benjamin and Thomas Kite, 1808. First American edition.. Front joint cracked but holding; rubbed; some foxing; a good, sound copy.. 8vo (8.5 x 5.13 inches), two volumes in one (as published, pagination continuous), original sheep, black morocco spine label, gilt lettering, 430 pages. Five gallons of salt water, of the temperature of 44 deg. were poured over her naked body, at five o'clock in the afternoon, and after being hastily dried with towels, she was replaced in bed: when the agitation and the sobbing had subsided, her pulse was found to beat at the rate of 96 strokes in the minute, and in half an house afterwards it had fallen to 80. The heat was reduced to 98 deg. by the affusion, and half an hour afterwards it remained stationary. The sense of heat and head-ache were gone, and the thirst nearly gone." Austin 596; Norman, History of Medicine, 1988 (for the 1797 Liverpool edition): "Currie was among the first in Britain to use cold water… Read More

Liverpool : Printed by J. M'Creery, 1798. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. xi, [1], vii, 273, 63, viii p. 21 cm. Hardcover. Spine professionally repaired and restored. Good binding and cover. Shelfwear. Clean, unmarked pages with minimal toning. Please feel free to view our photographs. . "Currie . the editor and biographer of Robert Burns, . after an adventurous experience in America, attained eminence as a practitioner in Liverpool. Long before Brand of Stettin, Currie used cold baths in typhoid fever and checked up his results with the clinical thermometer. He used sea-water, as a rule, pouring it over the patient's body and making the douches colder and more frequent, the higher the temperature, as measured by the thermometer. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell saw 'absolute genius' in Currie's book which, like those of Floyer and Martine, was neglected, if not soon forgotten" (Garrison, History of Medicine, 4th ed., p. 356).

London: for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1805. Fourth edition, corrected and enlarged of volume I and "second edition, corrected and enlarged" of volume II; 2 volumes, 8vo, index to vol. II bound before chapter 1; uniformly and handsomely bound in contemporary speckled calf rebacked, original spines and gilt-lettered black morocco labels laid down, internally fine; a very good set. "Currie was the first in Great Britain to use cold water packs in the treatment of fever. He made some original observations on the clinical use of the thermometer" (GM 1988, referring to the first edition of Liverpool, 1797). Currie, in addition to his innovative medical practices, also is known for editing the first edition of the poems of Robert Burns.