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PAINE, Martyn. The Institutes of Medicine...
New York: Harper & Brothers/London: Sampson, Low & Co., 1867. Eighth edition, revised. With a presentation inscription from the author reading ‘Franklin Institute Philadelphia, Pa., Presented by Martyn Paine.' Tall thick 8vo., rebound in library cloth (with a marble pattern), xvi, 1145, 9pp. ads. Ex-library with the bookplate and perforated stamp of the ‘Franklin Institute Philadelphia' (on first and last pages), library pocket at rear, call number in gilt at foot of the spine, an unworn copy but with all the usual library markings and binding.
Martyn Paine [1794-1877] American physician, born in Williamstown, Vt., July 8, 1794. He graduated at Harvard college in 1813, studied medicine in Boston, and practised in Montreal, Canada, from 1816 to 1822, before returning to New York. ‘During the prevalence of the cholera in 1832 he published a series of letters upon the disease to Dr. J. C. Warren of Boston, which were collected into a volume entitled "The Cholera Asphyxia of New York " (1832). In 1841 he united with five other physicians in establishing the university medical college (the medical department of the university of New York), in which he held for many years the chair of the institutes of medicine and materia medica, and afterward that of therapeutics and materia medica. In 1854 he was prominent in securing a repeal of the law against dissections of the human body, which was till then a state prison offence. He is a member of many of the principal learned societies in Europe and America. His principal works are: "Medical and Physiological Commentaries" (3 vols. 8vo, 1840-'44); "Materia Medica and Therapeutics," on an original plan (1842); " The Institutes of Medicine " (1847; last ed., 1870); " The Soul and Instinct, physiologically distinguished from Materialism" (1848; enlarged ed., 1872); and "A Review of Theoretical Geology" (1856).'
$200
PAINE, Martyn. The Institutes of Medicine... New York: Harper & Brothers/London: Sampson, Low & Co., 1867. Eighth edition, revised. With a presentation inscription from the author reading ‘Franklin Institute Philadelphia, Pa., Presented by Martyn Paine.' Tall thick 8vo., rebound in library cloth (with a marble pattern), xvi, 1145, 9pp. ads. Ex-library with the bookplate and perforated stamp of the ‘Franklin Institute Philadelphia' (on first and last pages), library pocket at rear, call number in gilt at foot of the spine, an unworn copy but with all the usual library markings and binding.
Martyn Paine [1794-1877] American physician, born in Williamstown, Vt., July 8, 1794. He graduated at Harvard college in 1813, studied medicine in Boston, and practised in Montreal, Canada, from 1816 to 1822, before returning to New York. ‘During the prevalence of the cholera in 1832 he published a series of letters upon the disease to Dr. J. C. Warren of Boston, which were collected into a volume entitled "The Cholera Asphyxia of New York " (1832). In 1841 he united with five other physicians in establishing the university medical college (the medical department of the university of New York), in which he held for many years the chair of the institutes of medicine and materia medica, and afterward that of therapeutics and materia medica. In 1854 he was prominent in securing a repeal of the law against dissections of the human body, which was till then a state prison offence. He is a member of many of the principal learned societies in Europe and America. His principal works are: "Medical and Physiological Commentaries" (3 vols. 8vo, 1840-'44); "Materia Medica and Therapeutics," on an original plan (1842); " The Institutes of Medicine " (1847; last ed., 1870); " The Soul and Instinct, physiologically distinguished from Materialism" (1848; enlarged ed., 1872); and "A Review of Theoretical Geology" (1856).'
$200
