‎SYDENHAM (T.)‎
‎The entire works of Dr Thomas SYDENHAM, newly made english from the originals : wherein the history of acute and chronic diseases, and the safest and most effectual methods of treating them, are faithfully, clearly, and accurately delivered. To which are added explanatory and practical notes, from the best medicinal writers ; with others by the translator : further illustrating the principal matters, and teaching the practice of inoculation, the use of chalybeats, and mineral waters, with the remedies and regimen proper for nephritic patients. The third edition, with all the notes inserted in their proper places by John SWAN ---- TRES BEL EXEMPLAIRE‎

‎London, Cave, 1753; un volume in 8 relié en plein veau, dos richement orné de fers dorés, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque), (quelques cahiers uniformément roussis), 1ff blanc, (1), 10pp., 22pp., (2-table), 672pp., (10-index)‎

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‎---- TRES BEL EXEMPLAIRE de cette traduction du latin en anglais par John SWAN ---- "Sydenham is one of the greatest figures in internal medicine and has been called the Father of english medicine . His reputation rests on his first-hand accounts of such conditions as the malarial fevers of his times, gout, scarlatina, measles, etc.". (Garrison N° 63 latin ed.) ---- Heirs of Hippocrates N° 554 : This work translated in 1742 from latin by John Swan, contains not only Sydenham's Methodus curandi febres but a number of his other works as well. His very popular Processus integri morbis fere omnibus corandis, Schedula monitoria, Treatise of the gout and dropsy, the hysteric passion in women and the hypochondriac disease in men, the apoplexy, the epilepsy or falling sickness in children, and epistles on venereal disease and small pox are also included" ---- "Sydenham included under hysteria all psychological ills short of frank alienation. He noted that hysterical symptoms were often accompanied by depression and that they could coexist with physical disease. He also knew that hypochondriacal complaints of men were similar to those symptom, which seize hysterical women , an observation which was later interpreted as meaning that the discovered male hysteria ...". (Hunter & Macalpine pp. 221/224) ---- Postel & Quetel p. 717 - Haymaker pp. 496 & 497 - MacHenry - DSB XIII pp. 213/215 - Zilboorg - DSB XIII pp. 213/215**4928/ARM2D‎