1846 Principle & Practical Lectures on Surgery (Thomas) Mütter Flap Illustration
Published by Lea and Blanchard, 1846
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Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar
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Lectures on the Operations of Surgery, and on Diseases and Accidents Requiring Operations. By Robert Liston, Esq., F. R. S., Senior Surgeon to the University College Hospital, and Professor of Clinical Surgery in the College. With Numerous Additions by Thomas D. Mütter, M.D., Professor of Surgery in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia; Fellow of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London; Foreign Honorary and Corresponding Member of the Provincial Medical Association of Great Britain; Corresponding Member of the National Institute at Washington; Fellow of the College of Physicians, Philadelphia; Member of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia; Corresponding Member of the New York Medical Society; Honorary Member of the Medical Societies of Philadelphia, of Virginia, &c. &c. &c. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard. 1846. xii, 565 pp, 9.25 x 6", 8vo. In fair condition. Leather binding normally scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Head and tail of spine rubbed. Title label is chipped close to front hinge with green residue; "er" in "Mütter" & "ry" in "Surgery" lacking. Gilt ruling and lettering rubbed. Water dampness staining to bottom corners of pages 470 - end of text-block, including rear board. Loss of leather at fore-edge of rear board, where water dampness staining is exhibited. Light foxing throughout text-block. Soiling found on title page, with some minor pencil marginalia at top edge. Normal age-related toning throughout text-block; mostly to edges of leaves. Binding intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Thomas Dent Mütter (1811 1859) was an American surgeon born in Richmond, Virginia. Orphaned at the age of 8 and raised by a distant relative, he attended Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia (1824) and graduated with an MD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1831. Later he eventually took a position as an assistant to Dr. Thomas Harris at the Medical Institute of Jefferson College. At the age of 30, he became the Chair of Surgery at the Jefferson Medical College and held this position from 1841 to 1856, when he resigned because of gout and lung disease. He operated on hundreds of patients to repair deformities and became the first surgeon in 1846 to administer ether anesthesia in Philadelphia. He is best known for the "Mütter Flap" which he used in order to treat burn victims; the grafting procedure is still used today. Mütter's main specialty was to help people who were "deformed", people that were categorized as monsters. Some of these people were born that way, other were born "normal", but their bodies had slowly turned them into "monsters", as tumors laid siege to parts of their bodies. For those patients, death was a risk they happily took in the surgical room for the chance to bring some level of peace and normality to their mangled faces or agonized bodies. In France, these kinds of surgeries Mütter specialized in were called Opérations plastiques, later called "Reconstructive surgery". Performing these surgeries, Mütter administered anesthesia to his patients. He was the first American surgeon to use it on patients. During his life, Mütter collected artifacts relating to surgery, which he used to show his students when teaching. These ranged from illustrations and wax models to actual specimens of human anatomy. The collection formed the basis for the Mütter Museum, which opened in 1863 in Philadelphia. The museum has a collection of more than 25,000 specimens assembled by Mütter. Today, it includes a vertebra of John Wilkes Booth, a piece of Albert Einstein's brain, a cancerous growth from the mouth of President Grover Cleveland and the livers and plaster cast of the Siamese twins Chang and Eng. RAREA1846DTVB - 05/24 - HK1628 FORN-TUB-0064-BB-2501-HKREV435. …
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- Title
- 1846 Principle & Practical Lectures on Surgery (Thomas) Mütter Flap Illustration
- Author
- Robert Liston & Thomas D. Mütter
- Publisher
- Lea and Blanchard
- Publication year
- 1846
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Hardcover
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