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<dl><dd>Preface dated Aug., 1782</dd>
<dd>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</dd>
<dd>"William Heberden" (biography): p. [iii]-v</dd>
<dd>"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</dd>
<dd>Includes index</dd>
<dd>Film 633 reel 49 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 49, no. 894)</dd>
<dd>Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints</dd>
<dd>Shaw &amp; Shoemaker</dd>
<dd>Microfilm</dd>
<dd>US Navy Bureau of Medicine &amp; Surgery's Office of Medical History;</dd>
<dd>NLM copy 1, ownership inscription of W.B. Magruder, M.D., Washington, D.C., dated Jan. 26th, 1833</dd>
<dd>Condition reviewed</dd>
<dd>digitized</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Therapeutics</div>
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<dl><dd>Heberden, William, 1710-1801</dd>
<dd>Heberden, William, 1767-1845, translator</dd>
<dd>Magruder, William B. (William Beans), 1810-1869, former owner</dd>
<dd>Wells and Lilly, printer</dd></dl></div>
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