Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 909

WILLIAM HEBERDEN (1710-1801) Commentarii de morborum historia et curatione. Veneunt apud T. Payne; Typis mandavit S. Hamilton 1802 ix, 417 pp. 21.6 cm.

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This work has been called the last important medical treatise written in Latin, and perhaps an indication of the disuse into which Latin had fallen may be seen in the fact that the work was immediately translated and published in English in the same year as this first edition.

Cited references: Cushing H200; Garrison-Morton 2207; Waller 4173

Gift of John Martin, M.D.