An Essay on Fevers. To Which is Now Added, a Dissertation on The Malignant, Ulcerous Sore-Throat. The Third Edition.

"An Essay on Fevers. To Which is Now Added, a Dissertation on The Malignant, Ulcerous Sore-Throat." The Third Edition by M.D. John Huxham.

"An Essay on Fevers. To Which is Now Added, a Dissertation on The Malignant, Ulcerous Sore-Throat" by M.D. John Huxham, Third Edition. Published in London by J. Hinton in 1757, this important 18th-century medical work examines fevers and includes a separate dissertation concerning malignant ulcerous sore-throat.

8vo. (4.75" x 8"). 336 pp. Bound in full brown mottled calf with gilt rule framing the boards. Spine with five gilt-rule-bordered raised bands. All edges lightly speckled red.

The front pastedown bears a bookplate from the Essex Southern District Medical Library, with a similar bookplate to the rear pastedown. The first free endpaper is lacking.

Condition: Edgewear, with corners bumped and rubbed and loss to the tips, particularly at the foot. Head and foot of spine chipped with loss. Craquelure throughout the leather, affecting the gilt rule frames. Both boards are tender and appear to have been re-attached at some point, though the book remains together.

An interesting 18th-century medical text on fevers and infectious disease, with institutional medical-library provenance.