Medical communications. Volume the first. by [Society for Promoting Medical Knowledge] - 1784

London:: Printed for Joseph Johnson, 1784., 1784. Volume one of two only. 8vo. (xvi), 456 pp. 10 engraved plates (7 folding), index. Modern full tree calf, raised bands, red leather spine label, gilt spine. Fine. FIRST EDITION. The Society for Promoting Medical Knowledge issued two volumes of Medical communications between 1784 and 1790. Volume I, offered here, is a rare compendium of medical case histories. Included are "An account of the effect of some medicines employed in the cure of cutaneous diseases," by James Carmichael Smyth; "Case of suppression of urine, successfully treated, in which the bladder was punctured through the rectum," by Mr. Bentley, Surgeon; "On the efficacy of opium in the cure of the venereal disease," by Frederic Michaelis, physician-general to the Hessian troops; and "An account of a painful affection of the antrum maxillare, from which three insects were discharged," by John Heysham, and many others. The plates depict diseased organs and ophthalmological patients. Blake, NLM, p. 296 ("volumes 1 and 2, 1784-1790. Issued by the Society for Promoting Medical Knowledge.").