FIRST EDITION. 8 vo. New cloth with lea. label on spine. xvii, (1), 330 pp. Four lithographed plates drawn from nature by J. Drayton. Uniform browning to first two-thirds of book and a few pages with darker transparent brown stains; a good to very good copy. The first books by Americans on hernia were published at Philadelphia in 1836, the first one by Heber Chase was unillustrated (Rutkow GS11), and the second by the surgeon Joseph Parrish (1779-1840) was illustrated with four lithographed plates. Rutkow GS13: "Incorporating seventy-five detailed case reports, this volume provides an excellent account of early nineteenth-century treatment of strangulated hernia and bladder and prostate problems. Parrish dedicated the book to Philip Syng Physick (1768-1837), whom he succeeded in 1816 as surgeon to the Pennsylvania Hospital." Kelly & Burrage, pp.941-942. Wellcome IV.309. Blocker Coll., p.303. Lacking from the other usual medical collections.

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Titre: Practical observations on strangulated hernia, and some diseases of the Organs
�diteur: Philadelphia: Key & Biddle, 1836
Date de parution: 1836
Reliure: Hardcover
�dition: 1st Edition
�tat de l'article: Very Good

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