A Claim for the Scientific Study of Iatreusis, or Applied Therapeutics. An Inaugural Address [as President of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh].

12mo: ii + 26 pp. Disbound. Inscribed, at head of title-page, 'To the University Library. | From the Author.' Fair, on aged paper, with a little foxing to first few leaves, and light damp-staining at head. P.15: 'We are, then, to understand by iatreusis, the exercise, by the physician, of the healing art. [...] The duties devolving upon the physician in treating a case of disease are twofold. First, he has to institute a diagnosis, and having done so, he has, secondly, to practise his share of therapeutics in treating the case according to the view he has taken of it. In completing his diagnosis, he has but done half his work; the next step is to put his patient in the way of recovery. Unless he perform his first duty thoroughly and accurately, he will be quite unable to proceed to the second.'