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BAKER, SIR GEORGE. Opuscula medica, iterum edita * An Essay on the Endemial Colic of Devonshire. Together, 2 volumes in one. Large 8vo, 252x170 mm,

BAKER, SIR GEORGE. Opuscula medica, iterum edita * An Essay on the Endemial Colic of Devonshire. Together, 2 volumes in one. Large 8vo, 252x170 mm, modern 1/4 morocco; uncut. wide-margined copy. London, 1814; 1814

  • Notes: first collected edition of Baker's Latin medical tracts, together with the second edition of his 1767 work on colic (Garrison-Morton 2096). The Latin writings comprise his 1755 lecture on the mind-body relation (Hunter & Macalpine, page 399-401), 1761 Harveian oration, and 1764 account on influenza and dysentery. Baker (1723-1809) was the personal physician of King George III and Queen Charlotte. The front blank is inscribed by his son: "With Sir F[rederick Francis] Baker's Compliments."

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