title: John Brown's Elementa Medicinae: an introductory bibliographical essay.
abstract: This Gottlieb essay reports the initial findings of an in-progress bibliographic study of the Elementa Medicinae of the eighteenth century Scottish physician, John Brown (1735-1788). The bibliographic history of each of the three pivotal London editions of 1788, 1795, and 1804 is described in detail; Mexican, German, and American editions are also described.
mesh_terms: D005858:Germany; D049671:History, 18th Century; D008131:London; D008800:Mexico; D012606:Scotland; D014177:Translations; D014481:United States