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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Limited edition of 300 copies. ; 8vo; 73 pages.
Published by At the University Press, Cambridge, 1937
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING. Original publisher's cloth, in original dust-jacket, lightly soiled. Inscription to fly-leaf. From the library of Ralph Hermon Major, with his bookplate. First edition, second printing of this book based on Moynihan's lecture on physicians who left the practice for other pursuits. Former physicians treated include Sir Thomas Browne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Silas Weir Mitchell. Moynihan (1865-1936) was a British surgeon and professor of medicine who was an authority on abdominal surgery. Major (1884-1970), a professor of pathology at the University of Kansas, was a true Renaissance man: physician, historian, author, educator, polyglot, amateur musician and enthusiastic bibliophile. BMC, XVII, 784.
Publication Date: 1937
Seller: Antiq. F.-D. Söhn - Medicusbooks.Com, Marburg, Germany
Book First Edition
Cambridge, at the University Press, 1937, 12°, (4), 108, (2) pp., orig. Leinenband. First edition, second printing ! Former physicians treated include Sir Thomas Browne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Silas Weir Mitchell. "Lord Moynihan (1865-1936), brilliant, versatile, wise and sound, a great surgeon and teacher" WILLIAM J. MAYO.