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179 + [9] index; [30], 112 pp. Engraved frontispiece, title-page printed in red and black. 6¾x3¾, original vellum with yapp edges, blindstamped morocco spine label.

Digby's sympathetic cure consisted of treating the cause of a wound, rather than the wound itself. Rubin - "The powder of sympathy became in Digby's hands the most famous universal cure of the seventeenth century. (It) was taken seriously enough by his contemporaries to be prescribed by John Locke and his colleagues Sydenham and Glisson." Rubin 81.