An Enquiry into the Medicinal Virtues of Bristol-Water. RANDOLPH (George).

An Enquiry into the Medicinal Virtues of Bristol-Water: and the Indications of Cure Which it answers.

First Edition. 8vo. [212 x 129 x 12 mm]. [4]ff, 114, [2[ pp. 20th century quarter brown roan, brown cloth sides, the spine lettered and dated in gilt. (The title-page separating from the text, but holding firm).

Oxford: printed at the Theatre, for James Fletcher in the Turl; and sold by M. Cooper in Pater Noster Row London, B. Hickley in Bristol, and J. Leake in Bath, 1745

With the final advertisement leaf. Lightly foxed throughout, but a decent copy.

George Randolph M.D. styled himself as "late Fellow of All-Souls College. Oxford" and dedicated the work to Edward Wilmot M.D. "Physician in ordinary to his Majesty, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales". This first Oxford edition was followed by a London edition of 1750 and a follow-up work An Enquiry into the Medicinal Virtues of Bath-Water, published in London in 1752.

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