Product Description
First Edition, 1799.
Defended as a doctoral thesis before Provost Rev.
John Ewing, the Trustees, and Medical Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine.
Slim octavo (21 cm), professionally rebound in modern brown cloth with crisp gilt-lettered spine reading "KING - INAUGURAL ESSAY ON BLISTERS - 1799.
" 37 pp.
[HISTORICAL & TOXICOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE] A scarce 18th-century medical imprint focusing on the clinical theory of counter-irritation.
Writing at the height of early American medical development in Philadelphia, King investigates the physiological action of "blisters" (typically induced via cantharides/Spanish fly) on the human vascular and nervous systems.
The text reflects the late-Enlightenment therapeutic shifts within the University of Pennsylvania's landmark medical circle, balancing prevailing theories of systemic excitement against localized cellular reactions.
[CONDITION REPORT] Very Good.
The modern cloth binding is immaculately clean, structurally stable, tightly bound, and square.
Internal text block remains firm.
Early rag paper exhibits natural, light uniform age-toning, with crisp margins.
An old institutional shelf mark ("C4-1") is neatly present in pencil on the title page and verso of the first leaf, remaining entirely clear of the primary letterpress type block.
Text remains sharp, dark, and highly legible.
An exceptionally preserved, historically solid exemplar for collectors of early American medical history, medical jurisprudence, and UPenn institutional history.
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