17TH CENTURY MEDICINE. The Works of Thomas Sydenham, translated from the Latin edition of Dr. Greenhill, with a Life of the Author by R. G. Latham, M.D.

London: Sydenham Society, 1848, 1850. First edition.
COLLECTED WORKS OF NOTED 17TH CENTURY ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, COPY OF PROMINENT AMERICAN PHYSICIAN FAMILY.
Two hardcover volumes, 14.5x22.5 cm, green cloth binding, gilt Sydenham coat of arms to both covers, gilt title to spine, book label of George Cheyne Shattuck and bookplate of George Shattuck Whiteside to fron paste-down, bookplate of Robert Chevalier MD to front free endpaper of each volume, ink signature of "Shattuck 1851" top title page of each volume. Vol. I, i-c276 pp; Vol. II, i-vii, 395 pp. Light wear to corners and spine ends, spines faded, gilt emblems to covers bright, pages crisp, (truncated) unmarked, very good in custom archival mylar covers.
THOMAS SYDENHAM (1624-1689) was an English physician. His first book, Methodus curandi febres (The Method of Curing Fevers), was published in 1666. He was the author of Observationes Medicae (1676) which became a standard textbook of medicine for two centuries so that he became known as 'The English Hippocrates'. His next publication was in 1680 in the form of two Epistolae responsoriae (Letters & Replies), the one, "On Epidemics", addressed to Robert Brady, Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge, and the other, "On the Lues venerea", to Henry Paman, public orator at Cambridge and Gresham Professor of Physic in London. Among his many achievements was the discovery of Sydenham's chorea. His last completed work, Processus integri (The Process of Healing), is an outline sketch of pathology and practice; twenty copies of it were printed in 1692, and, being a compendium, it has been republished more often both in England and in other countries than any other of his writings separately.
PROVENANCE: GEORGE CHEYNE SHATTUCK, JR. (1813-1893) was, like his father, a Boston physician. He received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1831, his M.D. in 1835, and studied for a time in Europe, including with renowned Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis. Shattuck was an instructor in medicine almost his entire professional life and the visiting physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital for 36 years. He also served as president of the Massachusetts Medical Society from 1872 to 1874 and founded St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H.
GEORGE SHATTUCK WHITESIDE (1873-1940), George Cheyne Shattuck Jr's great-grandson, also earned his M.D. from Harvard and specialized in genito-urinary surgery. An Ex-Lieutenant Commander in Naval Medical Corps, he served many hospitals in the nation, including Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and hospitals in Portland, Oregon. GARRISON-MORTON No. 64, "best English translation" (Inventory #: 1647)