KEILL, JAMES. 1673-1719.


An account of Animal Secretion, the Quantity of Blood in the Humane Body, and Muscular Motion. London: for George Strahan, 1708. 8vo (185 x 113 mm). A few diagrams in text. Contemporary calf. Corner of front free endpaper renewed, chip to blank corner of title, some minor browning. Rebacked.Provenance: John Shipton (1680-1748), admitted to the Company of Barber Surgeons in 1703 (name on title and manuscript note at end). FIRST EDITION. Keill examined the problems suggested in the title by using measurement and mathematics in general, and more particularly by positing an attractive force between particles of matter. John Shipton was a successful London practitioner and was consulted when Caroline, the wife of George II, was mortally ill with a strangulated hernia. In 1704 he held the office of steward of anatomy. Russell 511; Wellcome III, p 381.