An Inaugural Dissertation Upon The Three Following Subjects I An Attempt To Proved That The Lues

by James Tongue

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First edition

Philadelphia: Printed for the author, 1801. 12mo. ii , 72 pp., including half-title with errata on the verso. FIRST EDITION. Dedication to the author’s teacher Benjamin Rush. Half cloth over marbed boards; interior excellent. Item #17936 Rare first edition of Tongue’s doctoral dissertation about lues venerea, or syphilis. Tongue 1779–1843 , then a medical student at

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