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BROWN, JOHN. Observations on the Principles of the Old System of Physic: exhibiting a Compend of the New Doctrine. The Whole containing a New
BROWN, JOHN. Observations on the Principles of the Old System of Physic: exhibiting a Compend of the New Doctrine. The Whole containing a New Account of the State of Medicine from the Present Times, backward, to the Restoration of the Grecian Learning to the Western Parts of Europe. [2], ccxliii, [1]; 141 pages. 8vo, modern 1/4 morocco; contents browned, some light marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, title reinforced in gutter. Edinburgh: Apollo Press, by Martin and M'Dowall, for the Author, 1787
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Notes: first edition. "Brown used contemporary ideas of irritability and sensibility as the basis for a dualist theory of disease and a radically simplified therapeutics... For Brown, health was an equilibrium between stimulus and excitability. Insufficient stimulation caused asthenic diseases, with a deficit of excitement and a surfeit of unused excitability. Treatment for these diseases... was by stimulation, notably by the ingestion of opium and alcohol" (ODNB).
Title inscribed: "Moses Sheftall Bought at Philadelphia 1792 April 2nd 9/4 Sterling." Sheftall (1769-1835) was a Savannah physician who trained under Benjamin Rush, helped found the Georgia Medical Society in 1804, and served as a surgeon in the War of 1812. He was the grandson of one of the founders of the Savannah Jewish community, which was the third oldest in North America, established in 1733. EJ XIV, 1336-37; Kagan, Jewish Contributions to Medicine in America, page 2.
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