THOMSON George
£1,400
Auction: 1 February 2005 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Aoimotomia: or the pest anatomised ... 1st edition, engraved frontis., pp. [xvi], 189, [iii] of books sold by Nathaniel Crouch, modern calf, endpapers renewed, frontis. backed, paper a little discoloured throughout, a few very minor wormholes in the lower margins of some signatures, a few stains and spots, 8vo., London: Nath. Crouch, 1666
Note: T 1027. Not in Garrison Morton or Osler.
The medical writer and physician George Thomson (fl. 1648-1679) was resident in London during the Great Plague of 1665 which reached its appalling climax in September when during the third week alone some 8,000 to 12,000 are reckoned to have perished. Thomson mader a special study of the symptoms and wrote several works about the phenomenon, including this work to discover the cause through postmortem examination. It was subsequently published in Latin and German versions.