THE ENTIRE WORKS OF DR THOMAS SYDENHAM, Newly Made English from the Originals: Wherein the History of Acute and Chronic Diseases, and the Safest and Most Effectual Methods of Treating Them, are Faithfully, Clearly, and Accurately Delivered. To which are added, Explanatory and Practical Notes, from the Best Medicinal Writers...by John Swan, M.D.

LONDON: Printed by E. Cave at St. John's Gate, 1753. Third Edition.

Hardcovers, leather covered boards, 5x8 inches, 672 pages + Index at the rear.

CONDITION: Front and rear covers are detached but present, the leather spine covering is present, the covers and spine are rubbed and worn; internally the front free endpaper is loose, chipped, and has a very tender vertical fold-partial tear that runs through the inscription (holding now but give it a tug and it is a full tear), there is foxing and toning throughout, most noticeably on the early pages, light on most pages; the text is clear throughout and the pages are complete from the title page through the last page of the Index which ends with "FINIS"; the rear pastedown has some numbers written on it. Overall a textually complete copy with interesting early American provenance. Deserving of loving restoration.

PROVENANCE of Moses Brown, Jacob Maine (aka Jacob Main), and Thomas Wistar Brown. Early Americans, Physicians and Philanthropists.

The bookplate of "T. WISTAR BROWN" (Thomas Wistar Brown) is on the front pastedown. An early inscription, unsigned, is on the loose front free endpaper; it reads: "A present from my deceased friend Doctor Jacob Main - he presented me this book in the Spring of the year 1807 but little time before his death - He was my friend, faithful and just to me." At the top of the title page there are the signatures of "JACOB MAIN / 1802" and "MOSES BROWN / 1807", and an inked out signature.

About JACOB MAINE, aka MAIN (excerpted from an 1879 report on the early Doctors of New Hampshire):

******Dr. Jacob Maine, b.1772 d.1807, son of Josiah, and grandson of Rev. Amos Main, the first minister of Rochester, N. H., was born in Rochester; was graduated from Harvard College in 1800, studied medicine with Dr. Ammi R. Cutter, of Portsmouth, N. H.. married Sarah Ann, daughter of his preceptor and began the practice of medicine in Dover, in 1803. In addition to his medical practice, he kept an apothecary store on Main street. He died in Dover, of consumption, at the age of 35.******

About MOSES BROWN (from an Internet ancestry site):

******Moses Brown, b.1793­ d.1878, married Mary Wistar, b.1807 d.1842. Mary was the sister of Caspar Wistar M.D., b.1801­ d.1867, and the daughter of Thomas Wistar, b.1764­ d.1851, and Mary Waln Wistar, b.1765­ d.1844. Moses and Mary's children were Thomas Wistar Brown, b.1826­ d.1916, Moses Brown, b.1829 d.1883, and Mary W. Brown, b.1831­ d.1839.******

About THOMAS WISTAR BROWN (from the Bryn Mawr / Haverford College Library website - where his archives are held):

******Although the central figure in this collection is the Philadelphia Quaker businessman and philanthropist, T. WISTAR BROWN, b. 1826 d.1916, it also includes materials relating to his FATHER MOSES BROWN, mother MARY WISTAR BROWN, and wife Mary Farnum Brown, along with other members of the Brown family.******