The dispensary: a poem. In six canto's. The third edition corrected

by the author by Samuel Garth, Sir

$500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

London: printed and sold by John Nutt, 1699. 8vo, pp. 22 , 90; contemporary full calf, unadorned spine; minor wear, some page edges worn; good and sound, or better. Garth 1661-1719 was both a physician and a poet, and a fellow of the College of Physicians. On the last page of the Harveian oration at the College of Physicians, Garth alludes to a scheme, which had been discussed in the college from 1687, for establishing a dispensary where poor people could

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