The American medical lexicon, on the plan of Quincy's Lexicon Physico-Medicum, with many retrenchments, additions, and improvements; comprising an explanation of the etymology and signification of the terms used in anatomy, physiology, surgery...
New York: T. & J. Swords, no. 160 Pearl-Street, 1811. 8vo, pp. iv, [590], 30 (appendix) plus leaf of Swords ads; full contemporary calf, red morocco label on spine, the whole somewhat rubbed, rear joint starting, flyleaf loosening, mild dampstaining; good and sound. Early ownership inscription of Dan'l L. Carpenter, M.D. Bookplate of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian. First published in London in 1717, this popular medical dictionary went through at least 11 editions by 1811, this one greatly revised and expanded for the American market. In a note addressed to the "physicians and students of medicine in America," the American editor advises: "In place of the words left out, on account of having become antiquated and fallen into disuse, a very considerable number of new articles have been added...and in numberless places of this New York edition, the pages have been cleared of the typographical errors which abounded in the London text." American Imprints 22185; Austin 1576: "Apparently a revision of the same publisher's 1802 edition of Quincy's Lexicon Physico-Medicum." Item #59950
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