JOHNSTONE (James). A Treatise on the Malignant Angina: or, Putrid and Ulcerous Sore-Throat. To which are added, some remarks on the Angina Trachealis.1779

Worcester: Printed and Sold by E. Berrow, First and only edition, [4], 150pp., small faint stamp to title page, new endpapers, calf-backed marbled paper boards, red morocco lettering piece. "This is the younger James Johnston (1754-83), physician at Worcester. When visiting prisoners suffering from gaol fever he caught the disease and died at an early age. The present book, one of the early monographs on the subject, is an augmented edition of his graduation thesis."—Wm. Dawson, Medicine and Science. 3755. Wellcome III, p. 362.