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4to, pp. 67.
271 x 210mm.
Binding: Recent quarter morocco.
Provenance: Stamps of the Edinburgh Medical Society on title and
p. 3. Typed letter from Gerda H. Schuyler of Argosy Bookstores, 25
March 1966 to Walter Pagel with a carbon copy of his reply on verso
(see below).
Second edition (Wrst, unauthorised, 1821). The text was reprinted in two
American journals The American Medical Recorder (1822) and Monthly
Journal of Medicine (1823) and translated into Dutch (1822) and French
(1822, 1824). Lefanu Notable Medical Books in the Lilly Library 132.
‘Jenner’s last book, addressed to the son of his old friend Caleb Hillier Parry,
now a paralysed, dying man, summarized the observations of a lifetime on
counter­irritation by means of emetic tartar ointment, and discussed the
physiological principles on which the application acts. He wrote that his
references went back to 1794, the year after his recipe for emetic tartar had
been published, though that paper had been written ten years earlier still.
In his Letter to Parry Jenner also referred to the “interesting observations” of
Thomas Bradley in the Memoirs of the Medical Society of London for 1773. His
interest in the subject thus appears to go back to the very start of his medical
career, while the evidence which he adduced is from the most recent years
1819–21.’ (Lefanu, p. 96).
The Wrst edition of 500 copies was printed by mistake before the proofs had
been corrected. It was suppressed and apparently no copies survive apart from
the proof copy at Edinburgh university Library described by Lefanu.
Pagel’s interest in this work on tartar ointment presumably stemmed
from his study of Paracelsus work on tartar and gout in Libri V de vita longa
([1566], see my Catalogue 41 no. 79 and Pagel, Paracelsus, p. 161; see also
above no. 4.)
The letter from Argosy Bookstores in New York with this copy oVered
Pagel a copy of the American edition; he declined, saying that Argosy would
no doubt be grateful to him for not buying the book as they would have many
other customers for it. I can’t say that I have ever been grateful to a customer
for not buying a book, but perhaps times have changed.
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JuNGIuS, Joachim (1587–1657)
Logica Hamburgensis, hoc est, Institutiones logicae in usum Schol.
Hamburg. conscriptae, & sex libris comprehensae.
Hamburg: sumptibus Georg. WolWi, literis PfeiVerianis, 1672.
8vo: a8 (–a8) A–2O8 )( 2 , 305 leaves, pp. [14] 390 [6]. Errata on 2O8r–
)(2r, verso blank. Title in red and black, woodcut initials.
First complete edition, second issue with the Wrst gathering reset (Wrst
edition, books I–III only 1635, second edition, books I–VI, Wrst issue,
Jakob Rebenlein for Barthold Opfermann, 1638). An enlarged edition
was published by WolV in 1681. Kangro J8.