Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 922

THOMAS DIMSDALE (1712-1800) The present method of inoculating for the small-pox. Printed for W. Owen 1772 6th ed. 160 pp. 21.1 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 921

Dimsdale's treatise quickly became popular and was already in its fourth edition only a year after it was published. This copy of the sixth edition, published only five years after the first, is in such fine condition that it appears to have been rarely consulted by its previous owners. The book contains an interesting advertisement which extols the virtues of several types of mineral water distributed by the printer, William Owen. Owen also marketed tar water "made according to Bishop Berkley's Directions" (see No. 804) and "Sea-Water in its utmost Purity, taken up several Leagues at Sea."

See Related Record(s): 804

Cited references: Cushing D171 (3rd., 1767); Garrison-Morton 5420 (1st ed., 1767); Waller 2470; Wellcome II, p. 470

Gift of John Martin, M.D.