MAYNWARINGE, Everard (c.1628-99). Morbus polyrhizos et polymorphæs. A Treatise of the Scurvy ... The Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, London, 1666, 8vo, modern old-style calf. Provenance: From the Collection of John Yudkin (bookplate). Wing M1501.

MAYNWARINGE, Everard (c.1628-99).  Morbus polyrhizos et polymorphæs. A Treatise of the Scurvy ... The Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged by the Author. London: "Printed by J. D. for S. Thompson at the Bishop's Head in S. Paul's Church-Yard," 1666. [including, as part of the same work, but with its own title page, Antiscorbutick and Catholick Medicines, Exactly prepared and fitted for the principal Cases that occur in Practice ... Regulated præcisely in their Use, by fit Doses, proper Vehicles, due Times, with respect to Strength, Sex and Age. Largely endowed in Universality, opposing many and grand Diseases. London: 1666]. 8vo (144 x 88mm). First title within double rule border, woodcut initials and typographical ornaments, 2-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end (some fraying to the first title, hole in F1 with loss of a few letters, some quite heavy browning and staining mainly at the margins, lightly browned throughout). Modern old-style calf ruled in blind with the spine preserving old lettering-piece (spine faded). Provenance: From the Collection of Professor John Yudkin (modern bookplate; please see the biographical note at the end of lot 308); old illegible signature at head of main title; Tho: Clapham (old signature on the first page of the dedication). "By September 1663 [the author] had set up in business as 'doctor in physick and hermetick phylosophy' next to the Blue Boar on Ludgate Hill. He had a profound belief in specifics of his own compounding, and considered tobacco smoking productive of diseases such as scurvy, but he was in advance of his time in condemning the use of violent purgatives and indiscriminate bloodletting. During the plague year of 1665 he was entrusted by the society for employing the poor in Middlesex with the care of their pest-house, and he boasted that of eighty patients committed to him he returned fifty-six safe and sound" (DNB). Not in Garrison & Morton; Wing M1501.