[Rarebooks] For Sale: John Bell on the Cure of Wounds, Walpole, N.H., 1807

[Norman Kane]

BELL, JOHN, (Surgeon.)  DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF WOUNDS. 
IN TWO VOLUMES [IN ONE.]  FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
Walpole, N. H.: Printed for Thomas and Thomas & Justin Hinds, by 
George W. Nichols, 1807.  Octavo, 2 volumes in one, as issued, with 
separate title pages and pagination for each, 292, 180 pages.  Nicely 
bound in modern cloth with new paper label and new end papers. Some 
foxing. Complete with 2 plates and 2
woodcuts.  Austin 192.  By "the father of surgical anatomy" (Garrison-Morton.)
"He is considered, along with 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Desault>Pierre-Joseph 
Desault and 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/John_Hunter_%28surgeon%29>John 
Hunter, to be a founder of the modern surgery of the 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/Circulatory_system>vascular 
system . . . Bell was also a talented artist, and was one of the few 
medical men to illustrate his own work"  (Wikipedia
ex EB.) The illustrations in the present work are no doubt renditions 
of his own.
An Important work.  $375.00             (Trade Discount Available)


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