Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 694

WILLIAM MUSGRAVE (1655?-1721) De arthritide symptomatica dissertatio. Apud Fratres de Tournes 1715 [8] 170 pp. 22.2 cm.

Before studying medicine, Musgrave received a degree in law from Oxford in 1682. He then moved to London where he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his knowledge and work in natural philosophy and medicine. He returned to Oxford in 1685 and received his medical degree in 1689, at which point he settled in Exeter where he practiced medicine with great success. Musgrave was highly acknowledged for his archeological investigations, and his Antiquitates Britanno-Belgica (1719-1720) received wide acclaim and special recognition from the King. The present work, first published in 1703, was his major medical treatise and contains numerous case histories and many examples of symptomatic arthritis associated with venereal disease, asthma, fevers, scurvy, psoriasis, and podagra.

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Cited references: Waller 6782 (1723 ed.)