Commentaries on the history and cure of diseases / by William Heberden.

Commentarii de morborum historia et curatione. English

Boston : Printed by Wells and Lilly, 1818.

xi, 1 unnumbered page, 418 pages ; 23 cm

From the last London ed.

Preface dated Aug., 1782

Translation by William Heberden, Jr., of the author's Commentarii de morborum historia et curatione. The work was published posthumously in London in 1802 in both Latin and English. The manuscript copy, to which is ascribed the date 1782 ,in the Library of the Royal College of Physicians, has title: Collectanea spectantia ad historia morborum et remediorum. "A few verbal alterations and some rearrangement of the chapters were made by the son." - Crummer, Leroy. "A prefatory essay" in his edition of Heberden's An introduction to the study of physic, 1929, p. 12 and 64

"William Heberden" (biography): p. [iii]-v

"Appendix" (p. [393]-416): 1. A sketch of a preface designed for the Medical transactions, 1767. - 2. Observations on the chronical rheumatism. - 3. On the pulse - 4. On opening a vein in haemorrhages

Includes index

Film 633 reel 49 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 49, no. 894).

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 894

Shaw & Shoemaker 44293

Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1959. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)