Samuel Payne Ford Editor (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. Publisher's green gilt cloth with black embossed border designs, brown endpapers, and tissue interleavings to plates. It contains full descriptions of the parts of the body, with color plates of same; accounts of diseases of the time, their causes, symptoms and prevention; with directions on performing simple domestic surgeries and a full description of the different articles used in medicine and explanations of medical terms. With an appendix by N.H., Paaren, M.D. Both the editor and contributor were associates of Sir William Osler in Toronto, and Osler's influence is notable here. A very well-preserved volume in clean, bright gilt covers, internally unmarked save for the usual browning to the front tissue guard and a minor bump to one corner. Extremely rare and invaluable work of American medicine.…