The Lectures of Boyer Upon Diseases of the Bones, Arranged into a Systematic Treatise

Published by James Humphreys, Philadelphia, 1805

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Small Quarto, viii, 9-368 pages plus three plates. In Good minus condition. Bound in full leather with gilt fillets and red label bearing gilt titling to spine. Spine has material loss to tail exposing the quires, missing headcap, and chipping, cracking, and rubbing to leather throughout. Boards have bumping to corners, shelfwear to edges, chipping, cracking, and rubbing to leather throughout, and splitting to joints leaving boards only held on by their sewing guides; rear board has a dent to top edge. Text block has age-toning and soiling to edges; previous owner's label to verso of front free endpaper, dampstaining to edges of endpapers and margins of leaves closest to them, creases and/or chipping to corners of some leaves, tear to inner edge of Plate 2 (illustration unaffected,) and toning, light staining, and light foxing throughout; pages 139-142 plus Plate 3 are disbound but tipped-in. Shelved in Room A octavo overflow. The Lectures of Boyer Upon Diseases of the Bones is a foundational medical treatise compiling the surgical lectures of French surgeon Alexis Boyer (1757-1833, late Imperial Family Surgeon to Napoleon) into a systematic guide on bone pathology, fractures, and orthopedic procedures. As one of the earliest comprehensive texts dedicated exclusively to bone disorders, its release played a landmark role in introducing advanced European surgical standards and formal orthopedic education to early American medicine. 1415787. Special Collections - Upstairs.…

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Title
The Lectures of Boyer Upon Diseases of the Bones, Arranged into a Systematic Treatise
Author
Richerand, A.; Farrell, M. [Translator]
Publisher
James Humphreys, Philadelphia
Publication year
1805
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
First American Edition.
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