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Somatopolitia, or, The city of humane body artifically defended from the tyranny of cancers and gangreens ...   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Browne, John, 1642-approximately 1700
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Title
Somatopolitia, or, The city of humane body artifically defended from the tyranny of cancers and gangreens ...
Publisher
London : Printed for James Knapton, at the Crown in St Pauls Church-yard
Description
16 unnumbered pages, 183 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
Dedication to John Potter, ex-Mayor of Colchester and a Justice of the Peace in Essex, dated Aug. 23, 1702
In two parts
Contents as given on t.p.: In the first is shown how the humane body may be called a city, in respect of its parts and fabrick. How it may be compared to a political city, in relation to the various offices of its parts; and their mutual dependance upon, and subserviency to each other. The state thereof analogically considered, whether aristocratic, or oligarchic: Together with the proper remedies both for reducing it to, and preserving it in a due state. In the second is explained the various processes of the blood,how it nourisheth the parts, how infected, and what diseases are contagious. As also a compleat treatise of cancers and gangreens, with an enquiry whether they have any alliance with contagious diseases
Index: last 5 unnumbered pages
See Russell, K.F.: "A list of the works of John Browne", Bull. med. Libr. Ass. 1962. 50. p. 675-683. "[The date of the dedication] is evidence that Browne was alive at this date. It is presumed that he died between this date and the appearance of The surgeon's assistant in 1703" The latter is a re-issue of the Somatopolitia with a new title page

Subjects: Pathology; Neoplasms; Gangrene; Cancer; Gangrene; Pathology; Physiology; Tumors
Language English
Publication date 1702
publication_date QS:P577,+1702-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: wellcomelibrary; ukmhl; medicalheritagelibrary; europeanlibraries
Accession number
b30518192
Notes Leaf 90 text cutoff in gutter
Page 129 to 148 are missing
Copyright is on the title page
Authority file  OCLC: 1155412550
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Internet Archive identifier: b30518192
https://archive.org/download/b30518192/b30518192.pdf
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(Reusing this file)		 PDM This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark

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