Observations on the Dropsy in the Brain. To which are added his other treatises never hitherto published by themselves.
Published by Edinburgh: Printed for John Balfour, by Balfour, Auld, & Smellie, 1768., 1768
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Seller: Nigel Phillips ABA ILAB, Chilbolton, United KingdomNigel Phillips ABA ILAB
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8vo, pp. (iv), 193. Without the blank leaf U4. Faint library stamp on the title and upper corner neatly restored, foxing on the first three leaves, paper slightly browned. Good modern half calf antique. FIRST EDITION, with the extremely rare appendix. G&M 4634. The first account of the clinical course of tuberculous meningitis in children. Whytt divided the disease into three stages according to the character of the pulse, and he attributed its various manifestations to the presence of a serous exudate in the brain. ?It is a masterpiece of clinical observation, the finest first description of a disease to appear until then. Brief and lucid, the monograph is based on about a dozen cases in which everything of clinical value that could be detected without modern laboratory apparatus is recorded. Monro?s foramen, connecting the lateral and third ventricles of the brain, was first observed greatly dilated in one of the cases here described, which Monro (Secundus) and Whytt saw in 1764 during a consultation? (Samuel Radbill, enthusiastically, in DSB). This work was published by his son two years after Whytt?s death. The other papers printed with it, on experiments with opium, the strength of lime-waters, etc., had mostly appeared in journals, but the Observations appears here for the first time (it was also published in the same year in the Works). This copy has the Appendix which is rarely found with the main work. Still, History of paediatrics, pp. 443?449. McHenry pp. 112?120.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Observations on the Dropsy in the Brain. To which are added his other treatises never hitherto published by themselves.
- Author
- WHYTT, Robert.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh: Printed for John Balfour, by Balfour, Auld, & Smellie, 1768.
- Publication year
- 1768
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