Commentaries on the history and cure of diseases. From the last London edition / [Tr. by W. Heberden, Jnr].

Boston (Mass.) : Wells and Lilly, 1818.

xi, 418 pages ; (8vo)

GM 2207 (translation ; reprint)

Preface dated Aug., 1782

"William Heberden" (biography): p. [iii]-v

"Appendix" (p. [393]-416): 1. A sketch of a preface designed for the Medical transactions, 1767. - 2. Observations on the chronical rheumatism. - 3. On the pulse - 4. On opening a vein in haemorrhages

Translation by William Heberden, Jr., of the author's Commentarii de morborum historia et curatione. The work was published posthumously in London in 1802 in both Latin and English. The manuscript copy, to which is ascribed the date 1782, in the Library of the Royal College of Physicians, has title: Collectanea spectantia ad historia morborum et remediorum. "A few verbal alterations and some rearrangement of the chapters were made by the son" - Crummer, Leroy. "A prefatory essay" in his edition of Heberden's An introduction to the study of physic, 1929, p. 12 and 64.

Copy 1 Note: With bookplate of Sir George Duncan Gibb, M.D.