| Author: |
BENNETT, John Hughes |
| Title: |
ON CANCEROUS AND CANCROID GROWTHS. |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION. Edinburgh, Sutherland and Knox, 1849. pp. xii, 260; 190 wood engravings. Original blue cloth, with fading of edges, new spine. Ex lib. Bristol Royal Infirmary with plate on front pastedown and stamp and accession number on title. |
|
* Wellcome II, p. 144. John Hughes Bennett (1812-1875) graduated M.D. from Edinburgh in 1837. He became professor of physiology at the university in 1848; he was the first to teach the use of the microscope systematically, and to recognise its importance in the clinical investigation of disease. This was the first attempt at the practical teaching of physiology and pathology in Great Britain. . He later became pathologist to the Royal Infirmary and lectured on medicine and pathology (Hist. Scot. Med.) £125 £80 |
| Author: |
POTT, Percival |
| Title: |
THE CHIRURGICAL WORKS |
| Description: |
New edition. Three Volumes. London, T. Lowndes et. al., 1779. pp. viii, 504; iv, 532; iv, 426, (xxxii); 12 engraved Plates (4 folding). Recent half calf with marbled boards. Occasional light browning/staining, including some of the plates which show offsetting. A very good set overall in a handsome binding. |
|
* Wellcome IV, p. 424; Blake, p. 360. This three-volume set contains Pott's surgical writings and includes his treatises on fractures and dislocations (including 'Pott's fracture'), hydrocele, fistula in ano, congenital hernia, ruptures, lacrimal fistula and chimney sweeps' scrotal cancer - HoH 931, this edition. £650 £490 |
| Author: |
SEVERINO, Marco Aurelio |
| Title: |
DE RECONDITA ABSCESSUU NATURA LIBRI VIII |
| Description: |
Second edition. Frankfurt, C. Rštellinus for J. Beyer, 1643. pp. (xxviii) with additional engraved title page, 468, (xxxxvi); 20 plates. 4to. Contemporary vellum, soiled. Top corner of f.e.p. torn away. Browning/spotting of the majority of the text, mainly light; water stain affecting first third of the work; soiling and spotting of outer half of engraved title. Small library stamp on verso of engraved title and main title with faint ink sig. at top of the latter. A tight copy in its original vellum binding. |
|
* Krivatsky 11056; G&M 2273 (first edition, Naples, 1632); HoH 449 - 'This work, 'The Obscure Nature of Tumours', is one of the first illustrated texts of surgical pathology and established Severino (1580-1656) as one of the pioneers in the field. The 20 plates are among the first to depict pathological lesions and to include diseased organs as well as complete views of the individual with the tumour. In the chapter on breast neoplasms he delineates four types and differentiates quite clearly between the concept of benign and malignant tumours'. £550 £475 |
| Author: |
VELPEAU, A. |
| Title: |
TRAITÉ DES MALADIES DU SEIN ET LA RÉGION MAMMAIRE |
| Description: |
2nd Edition. Paris, Victor Masson. 1858. pp. lvii, 703; 8 engraved plates with descriptive text and errata, occasional text Figs, tables of statistics. Contemporary quarter red morocco, marbled boards, a little rubbed; occasional spotting. Very sound copy. |
|
* G&M 5771 (First edition of 1854) - 'Velpeau was the leading French surgeon of the first half of the 19th century. His great treatise on tumours of the breast, his best work, was the most important of its time on the subject. It includes a good account of hyperplastic disease of the breast' £245 £180 |
|
4 records found
|
|
