An essay upon the state and condition of physicians among the antients
Subtitle: occasioned by a late dissertation of the Reverend Dr. Middleton, asserting that physic was servile and dishonourable among the old Romans, and only practis'd by slaves, and the meanest of the people
By: by Charles Lamotte, A.M. chaplain to the Duke of Montagu, F.R.S. and member of the Society of Antiquities in London
Publisher: Printed for Benj. Motte, at the Middle Temple Gate, Fleet-Street
Published: 1728
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Physicians; Early works to 1800; Ancient Medicine; Greek and Roman Medicine; Ancient History; Roman World; Medicine
Other titles: Essay on the state of physick
Notes: Signatures: A-G⁴.

Head- and tail-pieces; initials.

Includes bibliographical references.

Short title catalogue of eighteenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine, page 254

English short title catalogue, entry T60569

Purchased in 2019 with the Endowment Fund for the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection.

Manuscript number "12548" on rear cover.

Bound in printed waste wrappers which bear the caption title "A general account of the work," which forms part of the prospectus for Robert James' "A medicinal dictionary" which was written by Samuel Johnson and Robert James; pasted to the inside of the wrapper is another piece of printed waste featuring details of an appellate court case from 1741-1743; in prefab, 26 cm.