Medicine in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by BLANTON, WYNDHAM - 1930

NY: Arno Press and the New York Times, 1972 Book. New. Hardcover. Reprint of First Edition. Covers the history of medicine in Virginia from 1607-1700, presented as a "moving word picture of Virginia medical development, with the physician playing his part in the foreground.".

Richmond, VA: The William Byrd Press, Inc., 1930. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 337 Pp Including A Section Listing 17Th Century Virginia Physicians, A Bibliography And The Index. By The Beginning Of The Seventeenth Century Anatomy Was On A Sound Basis, And The Average Doctor Knew Pretty Well The Course Structures Of The Human Body. Physiology Had Made A Good Start And Medicine Was Beginning To Understand How The Human Machine Worked. Red Hardcover With Title In Gilt On Cover And Spine. This Was The First Volume Of A Later 3 Vol. Work. This Is Very Clean And Bright. Profusely Illustrated. Fore Edges Untrimmed. .

BLANTON, Wyndham B. MEDICINE IN VIRGINIA IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. Richmond: William Byrd Press, (1930). 8vo. Cloth. xix, 337 pages, (40) plate First edition. The first and scarcest of Blanton's medical histories. With a list of physicians in the colony, their dates, residence, and specialties. Also list are medical books in early Virginia. Very good.

Richmond: William Byrd Press; Garrett & Massie, 1933. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Signed. Large 8vo; 2 quarto volumes; in publisher's red cloth and in publihser's elaborately decorated buckhram; xvi, [2], 3-337 pages, including Index; x[ [xi], 449 pages, including Index; xii, [2]-466; Volume 2 (The Eighteenth Century) is a number copy, #290 of 750 copies; there are no marks in any of the books.~~The three volume set is perhaps the most important sourcebook on the subject -- the first and second volumes for Colonial Virginia and the early Republic; and the third for medicine in the Civil War. Near Fine binding.