Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 488

SIR THOMAS BROWNE (1605-1682) Pseudodoxia epidemica; or, Enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly presumed truths. Printed for Edward Dod 1658 4th ed. [16] 442 (misnumbered 468) [16] [8] 73 [2] pp., 2 plates, 1 illus. 21.2 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 485

The second edition of the Pseudodoxia epidemica was published in 1650 by Edward Dod and Nathaniel Ekins in partnership. They later severed their relationship and commenced publishing rival editions of the work. Ekins issued a third edition in 1658 and Dod produced this fourth edition later that same year. Not to be outdone by Ekins, Dod included Browne's Hydriotaphia, urne-buriall, or, a discourse of the sepulchrall urnes lately found in Norfolk together with the Garden of Cyrus. The last of these rival editions was the sixth, which was published by Ekins in 1672.

Cited references: Cushing B774 (1st ed., 1636); Osler 4491; Waller 19462 (1st ed.); Wellcome II, p. 253 (1st ed.)

Gift of William B. Bean, M.D