Medicine.- Pringle (John)

Osservazioni sopra le malattie d’armata in campagna e in guarnigione, 2 parts in 1, includes Swieten (Gerhard van) Breve Descrizione delle Malattie che regnano più comunemente nelle armate, engraved title vignette to first work, woodcut initials and ornaments, double column, light age yellowing, occasional spotting, contemporary vellum boards, stained and rubbed, [Blake 364; Poggendorff II, 908], 4to, Remondini, Venice, 1762.

*** I OPERA: First Italian edition by Francesco Serao, translated from the second English of 1753. Pringle is considered the founder of modern military medicine.