LOT 207 An Account of the Foxglove, and some of its Medical Uses. Birmingham: M. Swinney for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1785. WITHERING, WILLIAM. 1741-1799.
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WITHERING, WILLIAM. 1741-1799.
An Account of the Foxglove, and some of its Medical Uses. Birmingham: M. Swinney for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1785. 8vo (203 x 125 mm). Engraved plate by James Sowerby. Quarter calf antique and marbled paper boards; cloth folding case. Some light browning, inscription trimmed by the binder, lacks half-title. "ONE OF THE CLASSICS IN PHARMACOLOGY" (Heirs of Hippocrates). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "from the author" on the title page. The earliest issue with the uncolored folding plate (see Norman). Withering was one of the greatest medical botanists and his book is one of the most important pharmacological works. It contains the results of ten years of observations of the treatment of congestive heart failure with the leaves of the common foxglove (Digitalis purpurea). Heirs of Hippocrates 1039; Garrison-Morton 1836; Hunt 676; Norman 2255; Waller 10378.
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