Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 527

WALTER CHARLETON (1619-17O7) De scorbuto liber singularis. Apud Felicem Lopez 1672 288 pp. 13.3 cm.

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This is the second edition of De scorbuto and was published the same year as the first London edition. Although Charleton was a brilliant individual and an active investigator, he believed in many of the classical concepts of disease, and this treatise on the causes and treatment of scurvy is written in that vein. Lind did a much better job one hundred years later (see No. 936).

See Related Record(s): 936

Cited references: Cushing C186; Osler 2294; Waller 1918 (London, 1672 ed.); Wellcome II, p. 329

Gift of John Martin, M.D.