PAYNE, Joseph Frank, M.D.

THE FITZ-PATRICK LECTURES FOR 1903. ENGLISH MEDICINE IN THE ANGLO-SAXON TIMES. Two Lectures Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians of London, June 23 and 25, 1903. With Twenty-Three Illustrations.

Oxford: At The Clarendon Press, 1904. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original green cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. 162 pp., numerous black & white plates. cloth worn at spine head and along the outside front hinge; still, a solid copy, good to very good. Very Good. Item #309425

¶ Payne was Harveian librarian of the College of Physicians, Most of the material on which these lectures are based comes from Bald's Leechbook, the main surviving Anglo-Saxon Medical / Herbal manuscript.

Price: $75.00