The History of Physick from the Time of Galen to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century

The History of Physick from the Time of Galen to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century

Freind, John, 1675-1728

Title pages

Boylston, Zabdiel, 1679-1766

Inscriptions

Boston Medical Library (1805-1826)

Physician John Freind planned this extensive early work on medical history—the first in the English language—while imprisoned for treason in the Tower of London. The volume appears to have been presented to the first Boston Medical Library by Dr. John Warren, and it also bears the signature of Zabdiel Boylston, the pioneer of smallpox inoculation in Boston, on its title-page.

Title page of part two of The History of Physick from the Time of Galen to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by John Freind, showing the signature of Zabdiel Boylston

Freind, John, 1675-1728

Printed for J. Walthoe

1726

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Boston Medical Library Rare Books Collection (1.F.67 1726)

text

1 title page

English

DigID0002736

DigID0002735

Deposited by the Boston Athenaeum in the Boston Medical Library, 1896