Miscellaneous observations in the practise of physick, anatomy and surgery. With new and curious remarks in botany. Communicated in several letters to eminent physicians and learned members of the Royal Society. To which is prefix'd a letter to the late Dr. Baynard, with new experiments, and considerable improvements in the use of the cold bath.

BLAIR, Patrick.

Edité par London, William Mears, 1718

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8vo, pp. [ii] title, printed within double rule, [vi] dedication & contents, [3] - 149, [3] publisher's advertisements; with two engraved plates; bound without the separate title page to the Letter to Doctor Baynard; paper somewhat browned, with some offsetting from binding; contemporary panelled calf, extremities a little rubbed, upper cracked but cords holding firm. First edition of Blair's first substantial publication. The eminent botanist Patrick Blair (ca 1670 - 1728) was first known as a surgeon and anatomist in Dundee and first attained notoriety when he dissected an elephant which had died near his practice. He presented his findings, with an extensive review of the literature, in a letter to the Royal Society in 1710, and in 171/2 was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. Blair was a Jacobite and was sentenced to death in 1716, but was pardoned after a successful appeal to Sir Hans Sloane and other members of the Royal Society. His wide-ranging essays, dedicated to Isaac Newton, cover the effects of cold bathing, various reports of dissections, the effect of arsenic on the body and various botanical contributions. '[There] he insinuates some doubts relating to the method suggested by Petion and others, of deducing the qualities of vegetables from the agreement in natural characters; and instances the Cynoglossum, as tending to prove the fallacy of this rule. He relates several instances of the poisonous effects of plants, and thinks the Echium Marinum (Pulmonaria Maritima of Linnaeus) should be ranked in the genus Cynoglossum, since it possesses a narcotic power. He describes and figures several of the more rare British plants, which he had discovered in a tour made into Wales; for instance, the Rumex Digynus, Lobelia Dortmanna, Alisma Ranunculoides, Pyrola Rotundifolia, Alchemilla Alpina, etc.' (Significant Scots). Worldcat: outside of the UK: McMaster, Harvard, Brown, Yale.

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• Titre: Miscellaneous observations in the practise of physick, anatomy and surgery. With new and curious remarks in botany. Communicated in several letters to eminent physicians and learned members of the Royal Society. To which is prefix'd a letter to the late Dr. Baynard, with new experiments, and considerable improvements in the use of the cold bath.
• Éditeur: London, William Mears
• Date de parution: 1718
• Édition: Edition originale