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Trotter, Thomas."Medical and Chemical Essays. Containing Additionl Observations on Scurvy ... Communications from New South Wales, on Scurvy ... The Case of a Blue Boy ... Thoughts on the Decomposttion of Water, and a Method of preserving it pure...

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Trotter, Thomas

J. S. Jordan

London

1796

Trotter, Thomas."Medical and Chemical Essays. Containing Additionl Observations on Scurvy ... Communications from New South Wales, on Scurvy ... The Case of a Blue Boy ... Thoughts on the Decomposttion of Water, and a Method of preserving it pure and sweet in long Voyages, with Experiments". London: J. S. Jordan, 1796 (2nd edition). 4to. 155 pp. With heraldic bookplte on the verso of title page. Paper binding from the 19th. century.

A rare treatise on scurvy. First published 1795. - Inside very well preserved, uncut. - Thomas Trotter (1760-1832) was a naval physician and author who was a leading medical reformer in the Royal Navy and an ardent critic of the slave trade.


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