1792 1ST U.S. (Philia) PSYCHIC PRACTICE [Medicine] Cullen LTHR 500p Evans #24236

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1792 1ST U.S. (Philia) PSYCHIC PRACTICE [Medicine] Cullen LTHR 500p Evans #24236:
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1792. PHILADELPHIA. 1st US thus/1st. First Lines of the Practice of PhysicWilliam Cullen, M.D. Vol i of ii.Provenance: Dr. George E. Brickett of Augusta, Maine (died January 28, 1910, aged 85 years). He was a graduate of Dartmouth Medical School in 1846. Dr. Brickett was a noted surgeon during the Civil War and late attending surgeon to the Kennebec Arsenal. He also served one term in the State Legislature in 1868. He was president of the Kennebec County Medical Society in 1870 and of the Maine Medical Association in 1883.Thomas Cullen (1710-1790) was a greatly respected Scottish physician and chemist. The first edition of this, his most famous work, was published in 1777.Scarce. full period polished calf (tree) leather, back-striplettered in blind and blocked in gilt. Thick: approx 500pp; top edge brown. Thick, laid paper. Published in Philadelphia in 1792. Written in older style English, with F for S, etc. Textblock approaches FINE. Includes sections on... Fevers; Inflammation; Hepatitis; Rheumatism; Toothache; Small Pox, Chicken Pox, Measles, Scarlett Fever, The Plague; Hemorrhages; MUCH MORE.Early American Medical imprint. Series I, Evans (1639 – 1800); no. 24236, and is cited as well by R. B. Early American Medical Imprints, 568. 1st U.S. The Parry Hall issue out of Philadelphia is considered quite scarce.

About the author...
William Cullen FRS FRSE FRCPE FPSG (15 April 1710 – 5 February 1790). Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist, and one of the most important professors at the Edinburgh Medical School, during its heyday as the leading centre of medical education in the English-speaking world.

Cullen was also a central figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. He was David Hume\'s physician and friend, and on intimate terms with Adam Smith, Lord Kames (with whom he discussed theoretical and practical aspects of husbandry), Joseph Black, John Millar, and Adam Ferguson, among othersHe was President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (1746–47), President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1773–1775) and First Physician to the King in Scotland (1773–1790). He was also the prime movers in obtaining a royal charter for the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, resulting in the formation of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783. Cullen was a beloved teacher, and many of his students became influential figures in their own right. His best-known students—many of whom continued to correspond with him during his long life—included (in addition to Joseph Black, who became his colleague) Benjamin Rush, a central figure in the founding of the United States of America; John Morgan, who founded the first medical school in the American colonies (the Medical School at the College of Philadelphia); William Withering, the discoverer of digitalis; Sir Gilbert Blane, medical reformer of the Royal Navy; and John Coakley Lettsom, the philanthropist and founder of the Medical Society of London.

Cullen was also a successful author. He published a number of medical textbooks, mostly for the use of his students, though they were popular throughout Europe and the American colonies as well. His best known work was First Lines of the Practice of Physic, which was published in a series of editions between 1777 and 1784.

First Lines of the Practice of Physic: By William Cullen, M.D. Late Professor of the Practice of Physic in the University of Edinburgh, &c. &c. In Two Volumes. With Practical and Explanatory Notes, by John Rotheram, M.D. Volume I[-II].
Philadelphia.
Parry Hall, no. 149, Chesnut Street, between Fourth and Fifth Streets, 1792An Aside.... The \"S\" that Looks Like an \"F\".
In the old Anglo-Saxon alphabet, from which the English alphabet is derived, the small \"s: was written in two forms: one is the \"long s\" that resembles our modern letter \"f\" (but note, it does not have the center bar), which is used when the \"s\" is the first letter of the word, or the first of a pair of \"s\'s\"; the other is the familiar shaped \"s\" which appears at the end of words. This usage is cognate to the two forms of \"s\" in the Greek alphabet. English printer John Bell first phased out the use of the long \"s\" in his books at the end of the 1700\'s, and by 1810 or so the new practice was universal in printed material. Interestingly, though, the use of the old long \"s\" continued in handwritten documents for many years, through the 1870\'s.
Provenance...
First blank stamp of Dr. George E. Brickett of Augusta, Maine, along with his 1843 signature to second blank page. Brickett was a respected Union Surgeon (21st Maine) and field officer during the Civil War and one of the early associates at the Cony United States general hospital at August Maine during the Civil War.
Signature of \"Theodore Hamilton\" to first blank.

ADDITIONAL TITLE CONDITION/DETAILS...

Philadelphia.Parry Hall, no. 149, Chesnut Street, between Fourth and Fifth Streets,1792. 1st US thus/1st. 1792. Full period polished calf (tree) leather, back-strip lettered in blind and blocked in gilt. Thick: approx 500pp; top edge brown. Thick, laid paper. Published in Philadelphia in 1792. Vol. i of ii. 8vo; approx. 5 x 8\".Written in older style English, with F for S, etc. Toning, occasional foxing, brown staining top of first few leaves, else textblock approaches FINE. A scarce early American Medical imprint. Bookpresents well.Provenance as noted.Hinges cracked, front board lightly bowed, top 1/2\" of backstrip leather replacement, else wear as photographed.Book, itself, *is*square; straight, very clean; tight; etc. Nice patina to leather.(as per scans). Early American Medical imprint. Series I, Evans (1639 – 1800); no. 24236, and is cited as well by R. B. Early American Medical Imprints, 568. 1st U.S. The Parry Hall issue out of Philadelphia is considered quite scarce.

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