A System of Materia Medica and Pharmacy, Including Translations of the Edinburgh, London, and Dublin Pharmacopias

Edinburgh and London: John Anderson & Co; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1813. Second edition. Two volumes, pp vi, 496; vi, 496, some age-toning and slight blemishes, a few lightly turned cornes, but overall good, sound and tight internally, contemporary full calf, a bit worn and bumped, the boards showing though at the corners, a tear to the upper cover of the second volume which has been neatly secured, the rear joint of the first volume is cracked but still firm. An uncommon early edition. [Dr John Murray FRSE FGS (1778–1820) was a short-lived 19th century British physician and prominent scientist, working in the fields of physics, chemistry, and geology, and described by Brydges as a "Chemical Philiospher". His first important published work, "Elements of Chemistry", appeared when he was only 23. He was born in Edinburgh in 1778 and educated at the High School. He studied Medicine at St Andrews University graduating around 1798. He appears in Edinburgh again in 1810 as a lecturer in Chemistry. He later also lectured in Materia Medica, Pharmacy and Natural Philosophy (Physics). In 1812 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his contributions to Geology, his proposers being Thomas Charles Hope, Robert Jameson, and Sir George Steuart Mackenzie. He was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1815 and was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London. He presented 28 papers to the Royal Society, the most important relating to proposals for a safety lamp for miners. He received his doctorate (MD) in 1814.]. Second edition. Full Leather. Good.