An essay on the causes, nature, and cure, of consumptions : in a letter to a friend / by John Moore, M.D. ; to which is prefixed, the charter of the Massachusetts Medical Society.

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An essay on the causes, nature, and cure, of consumptions : in a letter to a friend / by John Moore, M.D. ; to which is prefixed, the charter of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Boston : Printed by Robert Hodge, for William Green, [1783]

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45 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm (8vo)

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Advertised as "just published" in the Independent chronicle, Boston, March 20, 1783, and as a "new publication" in the Boston evening post, March 29, 1783
The charter has caption: Commonwealth of Massachusetts ... 1781. An act to incorporate certain physicians, by the name of the Massachusetts Medical Society
Originally published as Letter LXIII in the author's "View of society and manners in Italy."
With three final pages of advertisement
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-F⁴
NLM copy has a leaf of MS. notes in c19 hand bound at end: passage copied from An annual register, or, A view of the history, politics, and literature for the year 1775. London, 1780, p. 38, relating to the the poet Thomas Gray and the 1742 death of his friend Richard West from "the most flattering of all distempers, a consumption".
Film 633 reel 66 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 66, no. 1329).

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Evans 17607
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1329
Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., p. 311
ESTC (RLIN) W31993

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1958. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

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