Later edition of a popular Swedish Domestic medicine chest or first-aid kit for travelers of which more than 10 editions appeared between 1765 (first edition) till 1800. The author Nils Rosen von Rosenstein (1706-1773) was a well-known Swedish physician, considered the founder of modern pediatric. His main work, The diseases of children, and their remedies is considered to be the first modern textbook on the subject, with translations in English by Andrew Sparman and Dutch. Rosen was the First physician to the King of Sweden and a Knight of the Polar Star. He studied in Leiden with Herman Boerhaave and Pieter van Musschenbroek.
Title soiled and thumbed, slight browned throughout. With annotations in a contemporary Swedish hand on the first fly-leaf. Walter 8192; Iréne Sjögren, Nils Rosén von Rosenstein - The Father of Paediatrics, in: Upsala Journal Med. Science, 111(1) (2006), pp. 3-16.