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PUBLIC HEALTH]. -- MARTINE, George (1702-1741). Essays Medical and Philosophical. London: A. Millar, 1740. 8 o (196 x 125 mm). (Minor marginal worming at end.) Contemporary calf. FIRST EDITION. "Martime revived Santorio's clinical thermometry in the present work, the first and only scientific treatise on the subject before the 19th century. Martine's ideas were carried out by James Currie" (Norman) [see below]. Garrison-Morton 2671; Norman 1447. -- Clment Joseph TISSOT (1728-1797). Gymnastique mdicinale et chirurgicale, ou essai sur l'utilit du mouvement, ou des diffrens exercices du corps, & du repos dans la cure des maladies. Paris: Bastien, 1780. 12 o (161 x 97 mm). 19th-century half calf and marbled boards (rebacked). Provenance : Westdean Library (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Garrison-Morton 1987.4; Norman 2080. -- TISSOT. Avis au peuple sur sa sant. Lausanne: J. Zimmerli for Franois Grasset, 1761. 12 o (162 x 95 mm). Contemporary plain boards (splitting to joints). Provenance : Chanoine Leleu (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Garrison-Morton 1597; Norman 2081. -- TISSOT. Advice to the People in General with Regard to their Health... Translated by James Kirkpatrick. London: T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, 1765. 8 o (202 x 129 mm). (Some browning.) Contemporary calf (broken). Provenance : Helse Library (ink notation on title). First Edition in English. Norman 2082. -- TISSOT. Essai sur les maladies des gens du monde. Lausanne: Franois Grasset, 1770. 8 o (179 x 118 mm., uncut). Later wrappers. FIRST EDITION, signed by publisher on O3 to prevent piracy. Norman 2083. -- James CURRIE (1756-1805). Medical Reports, on the Effects of Water, cold and warm, as a remedy in Fever, and Febrile Diseases... and on the effects of Opium, Alcohol, and Inanition. Liverpool: J. M'Creery for Cadell and Davies, 1797. 8 o (230 x 140 mm., uncut). Contemporary blue boards with white paper spine (light wear to foot of spine). Provenance : Baulby (dedicatee, inscription on front free endpaper); Edgar Goldschmid (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Presentation copy inscribed: "To Mr. Baulby with kind respects From the Author." Garrison-Morton 1988; Wellcome II, p.240; Norman 547. -- William FALCONER (1744-1824). Remarks on the Influence of Climate, Situation, Nature of Country, Population, Nature of Food and Way of Life on the Disposition and Temper, Manners and Behaviour, Intellects, Laws and Customs, Form of Government, and Religion of Mankind. London: C. Dilly, 1781. 4 o (281 x 225 mm., uncut). Contemporary boards (some wear to spine and corners). Provenance : E. Lewis (1785, signature on title). FIRST EDITION. Wellcome III, p.7; Norman 755. -- [MEDICAL REPOSITORY]. Address, &c. [caption title]. New York, 1796. 8 o (180x 115 mm). Modern wrappers. FIRST EDITION. Norman 1483. -- Lyman SPALDING (1775-1821). Bill of Mortality, for Portsmouth, Newhampshire 1801-1811. Portsmouth: s.n., 1802-1812. 11 single sheets (262 x 194 mm., and smaller). Disbound. Modern quarter cloth folder. FIRST EDITIONS. "Spalding, the founder of the United States pharmacopeia, tabulated the deaths in Portsmouth between 1801-1811" (Norman). Norman 1978. (9)