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Introduction into Phisycke : [Physicke; Physic] ND (1550?)

Langton, Christopher

Amsterdam: Da Capo Press / Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm, 1970.

Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Item #7182
ISBN: 9022102815

Library stamps/marks/labels/slip/pocket, light spine sun, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Unpaged. Original title page reads: An introduction into phisycke, with an universal dyet, gathered by Christofer Langton. Original colophon reads: Imprinted at London by Edwarde Whytchurche. S.T.C. no. 15204. While STC offers a possible date of 1545, other authorities suggest 1550, thus being an expanded version of his 1547 Brefe Treatise. "among the earliest medical books written in English by a practicing physician." - Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry, 1535-1860; Richard Alfred Hunter, Ida Macalpine; page 10. ; The English Experience: Its Record in Early Printed Books Published in Facsimile; Ex-Library; Vol. 281.

Price: $69.95