[Rarebooks] FS: "Report of an Operation for Removing a Foreign Body from Beneath the Heart" SF: 1857

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(MEDICINE) Cooper, Elias Samuel. REPORT OF AN OPERATION FOR REMOVING A
FOREIGN BODY FROM BENEATH THE HEART. Published by the San Francisco
County Medical Chirurgical Association as an Additional Paper to Its
Transactions for the Year 1857. San Francisco: Whiton, Towne & Co...
1857. 10pp. Disbound. Light old faded water stain at bottom &
fore-edge, mostly in the blank margins. Rare.   $500.00 (trade discount
allowed)
In 1858 Cooper founded the first Medical College on the Pacific Coast.
This work is supposedly the first publication of a surgical procedure
on the West Coast. Harris, CALIFORNIA'S MEDICAL STORY, pp. 365-369.

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