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HUTCHINSON, Jonathan.
The Pedigree of Disease; Being Six Lectures on Temperament, Idiosyncrasy and Diathesis, Delivered in the Theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons in the Session of 1881.

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pp. (viii), 142. Original cloth, library stamp on title, presentation copy from the author to SIR GEORGE MURRAY HUMPHRY, with his subsequent gift label, a very good copy.

*Dedicated to the memory of Charles Darwin; Hutchinson quotes Darwin's statement that '... black sheep can eat with impunity a certain species of Hypericum, which is poisonous to white ones. This observation is so peculiar and so isolated that it must be held to require further confirmation.'

J. & A. Churchill. London.

Date Published: 1884.

Stock No. 62843

Price: £140.00

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