De rachitide sive morbo puerili qui vulgo the rickets dicitur..

by Francis Glisson

$15,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

London: William du Gard for Laurence Sadler and Robert Beaumont, 1650. First edition, co-author’s copy, of the first full clinical description of rickets, then thought to have appeared only recently in England, and the first description of infantile scurvy. “In 1645 the Royal College of Physicians assigned to Glisson, Bate and Regemorter the task of writing a book on rickets – one of the earliest Instances of

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