Facts and opinions concerning diabetes. By John Latham, M. D. F. R. S. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and Physician Extraordinary to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales

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8vo. pp. xxii [1], 244 (wanting half-title). Contemporary half calf, rebacked. Wanting half-title. Old stamp on title of the Royal College of Surgeons, of which Latham became President in 1813. First edition, including among his illustrative cases that of Samuel Ireland, identified only as ‘the father of a person well known a few years ago, as having practised the most ingenious deception upon the literary public, by a pretended discovery of manuscripts’. Latham treated him, ‘but his spirits were gone, and his heart broken’ from the widespread suspicion ‘respecting his concurrence, or even connivance, at his son’s literary fraud’. ‘Yet I have the strongest testimony (and in justice to his memory I think myself here called upon, since I have the opportunity, to record it as his deathbed declaration) that he was totally ignorant of the deceit, and was equally a believer in the authenticity of the manuscripts as those which were even the most credulous’ (pp. 175-76). Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.