Recent progress in surgery. The annual address delivered before the Massachusetts Medical Society, May 25, 1864

Published by David Clapp, Boston, 1864

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Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA

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Purple cloth with elegant device stamped in gilt and blind to boards; sunning to spine, minor chipping at head and tail of spine. Inscribed by the author to James T. Fields (1817-1881) of the notable publisher Ticknor and Fields on the fly-leaf. A very nice wide-margined copy. First edition of the published annual address on recent advances in surgery by the eminent Boston physician Jonathan Mason Warren. Warren here provides a summation of a lifetime of surgical practice, offering accounts of minutiae such his method for curing varicocele, which supplanted an "insupportably painful" screw-clamp of Breschet, as well as insights on amputation, excision of tumors, etc. Warren opens his address celebrating his use of "artificial anesthesia" as a replacement for the then-common and frequently fatal use of chloroform on surgical patients. Warren ends his account with a "brief allusion to the vast field for surgical improvement opened up by the gigantic war in which we are now engaged." Warren (1811-1867), the son of noted Massachusetts physician John Collins Warren was a pioneer in surgical practice at the forefront in the use of anesthesia and reconstructive surgery, most notably rhinoplasty and cleft palate surgery. Cordasco, I, 60-1925; Kelly & Burrage, pp. 1264-1265. …

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Title
Recent progress in surgery. The annual address delivered before the Massachusetts Medical Society, May 25, 1864
Author
WARREN, Jonathan Mason
Publisher
David Clapp, Boston
Publication year
1864
Edition
FIRST EDITION.

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