Freind, History of Physick, 4th ed, 1750

The History of Physick; From the time of Galen, to the beginning of the sixteenth century. Cheifly with regard to Practice. In a Discourse written to Doctor Mead. By J. Freind, M.D. Part I [and Part II] containing all the Greek writers. The Fourth Edition. To which is now first added, some account of the life and writings of the author, with a new and copious index of authors quoted, and medicines, diseases and cures. London: Printed for M. Cooper, at the Globe, in Pater Noster Row. 1750.
 
Two volumes, 8vo in original full brown leather. Raised bands and gold text on spines. Red speckled page edges. Leather a bit scuffed and lightly sunned. Head of vol 2 spine a bit chipped. 1 inch crack of top of front joint on vol 2, otherwise joints and hinges strong. Early ink notations on front paste down of each vol. Some image transfer between titles and frontis pieces. Internally clean, unmarked, bright, and tight throughout. 
 
Vol 1: Ffep, frontis, title – 330, blank, rfep. 
Vol 2: ffep, frontis, title – 415, 64, rfep. 
 
Page 18 commences a discourse on lycanthropy (werewolves). Freind was imprisoned in the tower of London for a time. 
 
See GM 6378 for the first ed of 1725/6: “Freind was the first English historian of medicine, and his book is a classic study of the period with which it treats. Freind dabbled in politics and planned the above work while committed to the Tower of London on a charge of high treason, a charge of which he was innocent. Sir Robert Walpole, Prime Minister at the time, suffered much from renal calculi and called in Richard Mead, a great friend of Freind. Mead refused to treat Walpole until Freind was released, and this was speedily arranged!”