JAMES LIND (1716 - 1794)

AN ESSAY ON DISEASES
INCIDENTAL TO EUROPEANS IN HOT CLIMATES
With the method of Preventing their Fatal Consequences

1777, London, printed for T. Becket, Corner of Adelphi in the Strand
The Third Edition, Enlarged and Improved
(to which is added
"AN APPENDIX CONCERNING INTERMITTANT FEVERS
and
A Simple and Easy Way to Render Sea Water Fresh, and to Prevent a Scarcity of Provisions in long Voyages at Sea"

18th century full calf, 8-1/2 x 5-1/2", 383 pp. on laid paper,
text clean & fine, tight throughout but front and rear free end-papers browned at margins, front board detached

James Lind (b 1716, Edinburgh - d 1794)
Edinburgh University (MD 1748) Royal College of Physicians;
As Surgeon in the Royal Navy, Lind promoted citrus fruit as a cure for scurvy, & discovered that typhus could be eliminated through strict shipboard hygiene, an advantage to the British over the French. He very nearly established the link between malaria and mosquitoes.

“Essay on diseases... “, his final publication(1768), on the symptoms and treatments of tropical disease, not limited to naval medicine, served as a general text for doctors and British emigrants and continued in use as a medical text in Britain in the fifty years following publication. (Wikipedia)

This volume includes the original bookplate of Gouvenor Morris* (on front endpaper)
* Gouvernor Morris I (1752 – 1816) American statesman and Founding Father, signatory to the Articles of the Confederation and U.S. Constitution, to which he wrote the Preamble.
Morris advanced the idea of being a citizen of a single union of states, in an era when most Americans thought of themselves as citizens of their respective states.

plus a second bookplate "ex libris Belvoir House" with hedgehog image (on front free endpaper)

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