Practical Obervations on the Nature and Treatment of Marasmus, and of Those Disorders Allied to It, which may be Strictly denominated Bilious
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- Northampton, MA: Simeon Butler, 1822
Northampton, MA: Simeon Butler, 1822. First American edition.
TREATISE ON INFANTILE MARASMUS AND ITS ADULT PARALLEL: BILIOUS DISORDERS.
5 1/2 inches tall hardcover, full leather binding, red leather label with gilt title on spine, decorative bookplate of Horace B. Cheney and Mary P. Cheney to front free endpaper, handstamp of G. R. Phelps to second free endpaper, 219 pp, [1], errata slip affixed to last page. Wear to covers, joints split at top of spine, light page browning, binding tight. Very good minus in custom archival mylar cover.
JOSEPH AYRE (1781-1861) went to sea at the age of 14, but subsequently entered a mercantile office as a clerk. In 1803 he began study of medicine at Guy's and St. Thomas's hospitals, and the following year he went to Edinburgh, where he received his MD in 1807. He settled at Hull, and was elected physician to the infirmary there. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians in 1824. In November, 1859, he was elected a Fellow of the College, but due to the consequences of a severe head injury, did not live to be admitted. REVIEW in New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Vol. 8, no. 4, 1 Oct. 1819, pp. 370-379: "Though we have been constrained fo dispute some of our author's leading tenets, of his book, as a whole, we would be understood to speak very favourably. It manifests both talent and observation. Its object is comparatively new, for, until the useful works of Dr. Hamilton and Mr. Abernethy, the influence of depraved digestive organs on general health and local disease was very imperfectly comprehended, even by the best informed of the faculty. But the inquiry has now obtained thaat full attention its importance deserves; and Dr. Ayre is entitled to the praise of having added to the facts and practical observations collected by the two eminent individuals just named."
PROVENANCE: HORACE B. CHENEY (1868 – 1938) was general manager and vice-president of Cheney Brothers Silk Manufacturing Company.
TREATISE ON INFANTILE MARASMUS AND ITS ADULT PARALLEL: BILIOUS DISORDERS.
5 1/2 inches tall hardcover, full leather binding, red leather label with gilt title on spine, decorative bookplate of Horace B. Cheney and Mary P. Cheney to front free endpaper, handstamp of G. R. Phelps to second free endpaper, 219 pp, [1], errata slip affixed to last page. Wear to covers, joints split at top of spine, light page browning, binding tight. Very good minus in custom archival mylar cover.
JOSEPH AYRE (1781-1861) went to sea at the age of 14, but subsequently entered a mercantile office as a clerk. In 1803 he began study of medicine at Guy's and St. Thomas's hospitals, and the following year he went to Edinburgh, where he received his MD in 1807. He settled at Hull, and was elected physician to the infirmary there. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians in 1824. In November, 1859, he was elected a Fellow of the College, but due to the consequences of a severe head injury, did not live to be admitted. REVIEW in New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Vol. 8, no. 4, 1 Oct. 1819, pp. 370-379: "Though we have been constrained fo dispute some of our author's leading tenets, of his book, as a whole, we would be understood to speak very favourably. It manifests both talent and observation. Its object is comparatively new, for, until the useful works of Dr. Hamilton and Mr. Abernethy, the influence of depraved digestive organs on general health and local disease was very imperfectly comprehended, even by the best informed of the faculty. But the inquiry has now obtained thaat full attention its importance deserves; and Dr. Ayre is entitled to the praise of having added to the facts and practical observations collected by the two eminent individuals just named."
PROVENANCE: HORACE B. CHENEY (1868 – 1938) was general manager and vice-president of Cheney Brothers Silk Manufacturing Company.