Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 904

WILLIAM CULLEN (1710-1790) First lines of the practice of physic. Vol. I printed for Thomas Armitage, Vol. II printed by J. Williams, Vol. III printed for James Williams, Vol. IV printed for Luke White 1777-1784 Vol. I: viii, 417 pp.; Vol. II: viii, 408 pp.; Vol. III: ix [1] 389 pp.; Vol. IV: vi, xlviii, 362 pp. (misnumbered 286). 21.1 cm.

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My duties, however, as a Professor, have necessarily produced the following sheets, intended chiefly as a text-book for the use of my students (Preface). First published in Edinburgh in 1776, this work became very popular and was the authoritative work on medicine in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Cited references: Wellcome II, p. 413

Gift of John Martin, M.D.