Gaub, Medicinal Pathology, 1778, first English ed

The Institutions of Medicinal Pathology by H. D. Gaubius, Professor of Chemistry in the University of Leyden. Translated from the Latin, by Charles Erskine, Surgeon. Edinburgh: Printed for the Translator: And sold by C. Elliot, and T. Cadell, London. 1778. 
 
Probably 20th century quarter brown cloth with tan paper over boards and white title label on spine. New end papers. Book plate on front paste down: “ex libris Brian C. Davies wylcwm st. knighton powys.” Uncut and mostly unopened. Minimal toning. Variably foxed. B1 with 1 inch tear into top edge, without loss. B2 and Oo each with 2 inch tear at top edge into text, without loss. X2 with 2 inch tear at fore-edge into text, without loss. Damp stain from Dd4 to end. Blue ink markings on Mm. 
 
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See Heirs 871: Hieronymus David Gaubius (1705 – 1780): ”Gaubius, a native of Heidelberg, succeeded his friend and teacher, Hermann Boerhaave (see No. 739 ff.), in the professorship of medicine at Leiden. He was an effective and successful teacher and his influence was widespread throughout Europe and America. Although he was deeply committed to chemistry, Gaubius did not allow that commitment to overshadow his interest in clinical medicine. In his most popular and well-known work, Institutiones pathologiae medicinalis (1758), he presented a modified humoral theory which ignored the body of pathological knowledge that had been accumulated during the previous century. This was unfortunate because his book went through many editions and translations and was used by countless students who had no knowledge of the work of Morgagni or Matthew Baillie.” 
 
Long, pp121-122: “This book was in the hands of most medical students, and for a time probably far more widely read than the De Sedibus et Causis Morborum of Morgagni. Gaub was as much concerned with “signs of health” as signs of disease, thought of disease as a material entity, and considered each particular disease as having its individual predisposing state, which he referred to as its “morbific seed.”