A New Medical Dictionary; Or, General Repository of Physic.

Containing An Explanation of the Terms, and a Description of the Various Particulars, Relating to Anatomy, Physiology, Physic, Surgery, Materia Medica, Chemistry, &&&

by G. Motherby, M.D.

Revised and corrected, with considerable additions by George Wallis, M.D.

Fourth edition.  London:  J. Johnson, G.G. and J. Robinson, T.N. Longman, and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1795  

Hardback is overall in GOOD condition.

• Full calf over heavy boards with raised bands, burgundy label with gilt title on spine. 
• Boards show wear, smudges, bumps, chips, scuffing, edgewear.  Corners are worn, with exposed board.
• Spine has burgundy label with gilt text dimmed and is cracked and worn with chipped ends.  See photos.  
• Binding is parially disbound; front board is off, rear board loose; first two and last two leaves are detached.  
• Pastedowns have staining, adhesions, owner name; feps are missing. 
• Thirty-four total plates:  Anatomy I-XX (XV in 3 parts), Midwifery 1-5, Botany I-III, Chemistry Characters and Apparatus 4 total.  Illustrations are bright and clear, with scattered foxing, marginal stains.  
• Interior is gently age-toned, exhibits scattered light foxing, some smudges, staining to lower corner.  See photos. 
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• PS2025.0605

739 pages. 9.75 x 14.25 inches

A Good copy of the Scarce 1795 Fourth Edition of this important work of medicine.  Folio format, full contemporary calf binding with leather and gilt title label on the spine.  Front board is detached and rear board threatening.  End papers are missing and title page is very worn as a consequence.  Most notable is the section of full page plates, here bound at the front of the volume, striking in their detail and generous size.

Dr George Motherby (1731-1793) was a Yorkshire born physician and medical writer who practised in Highgate.  He was one of the pioneers of the variolation method of immunization against smallpox, which he described in an entry in his Dictionary.  

The Fourth Edition, published in 1795.  In his Preface to the Fourth Edition, George Wallis explained the advances to medical science that justified a new edition just four years after the Third Edition (1791). 

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