Author: STUBBS, STANLEY GEORGE BLAXLAND
Title: Sixty Centuries of Health and Physick: the progress of ideas from primitive magic to modern medicine
Description: London : S. Low. Marston & co. ltd [1931]. First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Frontispiece plate loose. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong. Scattered foxing to end-papers. by S.G. Blaxland Stubbs and E.W. Bligh; with an introduction by Sir Humphry Rolleston. Provenance; from the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute with its book plate and library marks; includes a presentation bookplate from the Birmingham Medical Institute. being presented by Dr. W. Brian Gough. Physical description: xvi. 253 pages. LXIV plate (including facsims.) : color frontispiece. plan ; 23 cm. Notes: Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. 'Short book list': p. 237-239. Subject: Medicine - History. Magic - history. Medicine. Magic. mystic. and spagiric - History. Medicine. traditional. Magic. Other names: Bligh. E. W. Rolleston. Humphry Davy Sir (1862-1944). Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society. Genre: Bibliography. Illustrated. text. Weight in Kg appr.:

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