Kopenhagen, Prost und Storch, 1798. Contemp. full calf. Gilding on spine faint. Titlelabel to spine. Spine a bit rubbed. A small nick to top of spine. CLII,444 pp. and 1 folded table. Internally clean.
Second German edition of Brown's main work, describing his controversial medical system, called Brunonism.
"Brown's unusual but immensely popular system of medicine (Brunonism) was based on the principle that life is maintained by a state of externally provoked excitability within living tissues. The disease state was seen as one in which this excitability fell above or below normal limits."(Heirs of Hippocrates: 641 (the English original "The elements of medicine", 1791).
Order-nr.: 46438