Charles Scudamore / TREATISE ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF GOUT AND RHEUMATISM 1st

Description: A TREATISE ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF GOUT AND RHEUMATISM INCLUDING GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS ON MORBID STATES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS, SOME REMARKS ON REGIMEN; AND PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS ON GRAVEL (Mason Locke Weems's copy) Author: Scudamore, Charles Title: A TREATISE ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF GOUT AND RHEUMATISM INCLUDING GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS ON MORBID STATES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS, SOME REMARKS ON REGIMEN; AND PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS ON GRAVEL (Mason Locke Weems's copy) Publication: Philadelphia, PA: Published by Edward Earle, Corner of Fourth and Library Streets. (William Brown, printer), 1819 Edition: First American Edition Description: Leather-bound. 8vo. Full leather, with contrasting red title label to spine. Double ruled in gilt. 8-3/4 in. Includes prefaces to the first and second London editions of 1816 and 1817. Half title. Includes index. xix, [1], 335, [1] p. 22 cm. V-shaped dampstain at top centered on gutter visible throughout. Textblocks browned from ink with peripheral browning from damp. The author's observations on approximately one-hundred cases of gout. "In 1820 he was appointed physician to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Gotha.[1] He attended the novelist Ann Radcliffe at her death in 1823; surviving records have led to the suggestion that Scudamore's prescriptions worsened her condition..." (ODNB). Good Plus. This copy from the library of M.L. Weems, M.D.,(and bearing his printed stamp atop the title page) probably the famous "Parson Weems", biographer of George Washington, William Penn,Francis Marion, and others, whom some say was somewhat more mythologizer and even hagiographer, than accurate recounter of biographical facts surrounding historical figures. He is the progenitor of the famed Chopping down the Cherry Tree story told about the youthful George Washington. "Mason Locke Weems (1759-1825), bookseller, author, and Episcopal clergyman...Having received medical training in London and at the University of Edinburgh prior to the Revolutionary War, he [underwent religious conversion and] returned to Great Britain after the conflict and was ordained into the Episcopal ministry in 1784. Weems served in two parishes in Maryland, 1784-92, before relocating to Dumfries, Virginia, in the mid-1790s. About that time he became an agent for the prominent Philadelphia publisher Mathew Carey and, as such, spent the rest of his life traveling up and down the East Coast selling books. Following the publication of his famed biography of George Washington in 1800, a later edition of which included the oft-repeated cherry-tree story, Weems wrote biographies of Francis Marion, Benjamin Franklin, and William Penn, as well as a number of moralizing tracts." (National Historical Publications and Records Commission/National Archives). Seller ID: 83347 Aardvark Rare Books Eugene, OR We work hard to make your Bookbuying Experience safe, easy and fun. Aardvark Books is a proud member of the ABAA (Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America) and IOBA, Independent Online Booksellers Association. Ezra is also an accredited and Qualified Appraiser of Books and Manuscripts, with a designation from the ASA (American Society of Appraisers), with considerable Archive experience as well. Shipping All books shipped to US destinations are sent via the US Postal Service. Faster shipping is available, please ask before paying. We will combine shipping on items purchased at the same time in order to help reduce costs. International shipping is also available. Please inquire for a shipping quote before ordering.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.

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