Falconer, William

An Essay On The Bath Waters

London For T. Lowndes 1770 In Four Parts. Containing a Prefatory Introduction on the Study of Mineral Waters in General. Part I. An Account of their possible Impregnations. II. The most approved Means to be used for the Discovery of their Contents. III. Experiments on the Bath Waters, with an Application of the foregoing Rules, to the Discovery of their Contents. IV. An Application of the Whole to the Practice of Pharmacy and Medicine. First Edition. 12mo. [2]ff, 275pp. Old calf covers (rebacked, new endleaves). Entirely uncut, and with some sheets unopened. The original stab holes and those from a second sewing are visible, and in places touch the text. Title-page and a few margins a little dust-soiled, and a few light spots. The work was republished, in two volumes, in 1772. William Falconer (1744-1824) moved from Chester to Bath in January 1770, and in 1784 was appointed to the Bath General Hospital. This was his first published work, and was followed by a pile of others.

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