Lectures on the Diagnosis and Treatment of the Principal Forms of Paralysis of the Lower Extremities

Brown-Sequard, Charles Edward

Published by Collins, Printer, Philadelphia, 1861

About this Item

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 118 pages; 1st US edition of this uncommon pioneering work on paralysis and spinal cord damage. "Heirs of Hippocrates 1842" Original blind stamped brown cloth; binding sound. The top inch and a half of cloth spine edge is chipped and missing; the larger part of the gilt blocked title to spine chipped off. Some much more mild chipping to cloth at board edge and corners. Original endpages clean and intact with no splitting. Collated and complete. Would benefit from professional rebacking/recasing; still a clean and solidly bound copy of an exceptionally uncommon and quite significant book in the history of medicine. Contents VG with binding externals only Fair to Good.

Seller Inventory # Alibris.0001127

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lectures on the Diagnosis and Treatment of the Principal Forms of Paralysis of the Lower Extremities
• Publisher: Collins, Printer, Philadelphia
• Publication Date: 1861
• Binding: Hard cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Medicine
  • Sciences
  • 19th Century Subjects and Studies