A dissertation on the natural history and medicinal effects of the secale cornutum, or ergot / by Oliver Prescott, A.M. ; read at the annual meeting [of the Massachusetts Medical Society] June 2, 1813.

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A dissertation on the natural history and medicinal effects of the secale cornutum, or ergot / by Oliver Prescott, A.M. ; read at the annual meeting [of the Massachusetts Medical Society] June 2, 1813. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Running title: Dissertation on secale cornutum

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[Boston] : [publisher not identified], [1813?]

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16 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plate : illustrations (engraving) ; 24 cm

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Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1562
Shaw & Shoemaker 29574

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With a running title: Dissertation on secale cornutum
Also published in Medical dissertations of the Massachusetts Medical Society, v. 3, 1822, p. 77-93
Another issue (Shaw & Shoemaker 29573) with a shortened and reset caption title, and the pages renumbered [1]-18 p., includes title page: A dissertation on the natural history and medicinal effects of the secale cornutum, or ergot. By Oliver Prescott, A.M. fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Read at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society, June 2, 1813. Boston: Published by Cummings and Hilliard, no. 1, Cornhill. Andover--Printed by Flagg & Gould. 1813. Cf. American Antiquarian Society copy
At foot of plate: Plate copied from the one annexed to l'Abbè Tessier's memoir in Histoire de la Société Royal de Mèdecine. Tom. I. pars. 2d. page 418
Film 633 reel 76 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 76, no. 1562).

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