RANBY, John.

A Narrative of the Last Illness of the Right Honourable the Earl of Orford: from May 1744, to the Day of his Decease, March the Eighteenth following.

One folding engraved plate. 4 p.l., 47, [1] pp. 8vo, attractive modern marbled boards, red morocco lettering piece on spine. London: J. & P. Knapton, 1745. [bound with]: -- . An Appendix...Occasioned by the Letter from a Physician in Town to Another at Bath. 43, [1] pp. 8vo. London: J. & P. Knapton, 1745. First edition. Ranby (1703-73), sergeant-surgeon to King George II and a fellow of the Royal Society, was one of the leading English surgeons of his time. This is an uncommon and very interesting tract on the last illness and death of the British statesman Robert Walpole (1676-1745), who died from a kidney disease. Ranby was one of the physicians who treated Walpole and performed the autopsy. The plate shows 35 stones discharged or extracted from Walpole's body. The first work gave great offense to many physicians, since Ranby utterly condemned the use of lithontrypic lixivium by James Jurin in the treatment of Walpole. In the appendix Ranby defends himself at length against his opponents. Fine copies.

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