OLIVER (William). A Practical Essay on the Use and Abuse of Warm Bathing in Gouty Cases.1751

Bath: Printed by T. Boddely, First edition, 4to (240 x 190 mm), [2], 68pp., small stain effecting blank fore-edge margin of a few leaves, cont. paper wrappers, dust soiled and stained, spine a little torn, but overall a very good copy. "Bath's best known physician, the celebrated William Oliver, Jr. (1695 - 1764 ) went out of his way, in his modest work of 1751... to state that doctors who lived at a distance from Bath had no correct understanding of the effects of waters on patients."—Neve. Neve, Natural philosophy, medicine and the culture of science in provincial England. p.75.