GLISSON, Francis (1597-1677) & others. A Treatise of the Rickets ... Enlarged ... and ... amended ... By Nich. Culpepper, London, 1651, 8vo, calf. Provenance: From the Collection of John Yudkin (bookplate). Second, or first "enlarged", edition in English.

GLISSON, Francis (1597-1677), Nicholas CULPEPPER (1616-54, editor) & others.  A Treatise of the Rickets: Being a Disease common to Children. Wherein (among many other things) is shewed, 1. The Essence, 2. The Causes, 3. The Signs, 4. The Remedies, of the Disease. Published in Latin By Francis Glisson, George Bate, and Ahasuerus Regemorter: Doctors of Physick, and Fellows of the Colledg of Physicians of London. Translated by Phil. Armin. Enlarged, Corrected, and very much amended throughout the whol Book. By Nich. Culpepper Gent. Student in Physick and Astrology; living in Spittlefields, neer London. London: "Printed by Peter Cole in Leaden-Hall, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhil, neer the Royal Exchange," 1651. Small 8vo (134 x 90mm). Title within single rule border, 3-pages of publisher's advertisements at the front, woodcut illustrations, initials and ornaments (variable spotting, staining and browning throughout, a few darker spots occasionally affecting legibility, illustration on p.320 cropped at foot [as usual, see illustration]). Contemporary calf, spine with red morocco lettering piece (some patches and strips heavily rubbed, some erosion to head and foot of the spine and damage to label, inner hinges weak, some spotting to edges), contained in a modern velvet-lined buckram box. Provenance: From the Collection of Professor John Yudkin (modern bookplate; please see the biographical note at the end of lot 308); Charles Woodward (old signature on the title, followed by a short illegible inscription). Second edition in English, and the first edition in English edited by Nicholas Culpepper, comprising 373-pages followed by 4-pages of "A Table of the Chapters contained in this Treatise". This edition was preceded, in the same year, by the first edition in English, which was not edited by Culpepper and has the title page within an ornamental woodcut typographical border rather than the single rule border in the present copy. The first edition - in any language -  was published in Latin just one year before, in 1650. With its eight contributors, listed in full in this edition on [A3] under the heading, "The Names of those Doctors who by written Papers contributed their Observations to our first Exercise upon this Affect" (although only three of the same were listed on the title page of this and the first edition), the work was a pioneering example of collaboration in medical research. "The origin of the book was Glisson's own observation of the chief symptoms of rickets, enlarged joints and bent bones, in the children of his native county Dorset. He communicated his notes to other fellows of the College of Physicians, of whom seven added some remarks of their own ... The 'Tractatus de Rachitide' [as the first Latin edition was titled] will always remain one of the glories of English medicine" (DNB). cf. Garrison & Morton 3729 (citing the first Latin edition of 1650): "Although anticipated by Whistler and others in the description of infantile rickets, Glisson's account was the fullest that had till then appeared. He was first ... to describe infantile scurvy. An English translation appeared in 1651"; cf. Wellcome III, 126; this edition not in Wing but cf. Wing G860. RARE.