Item Details

Frozen Sections of a Child.

New York: William Wood & Co, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Includes fifteen full-page drawings from nature by H.P. Quincy. A century or so before CAT scans and MRIs, this work offered detailed tomogrpahic images. Remarkably important (and one of the great titles in publishing). First edition of a classical work of great importance in pediatrics, and the first American group of serial sections. This work provided tomographic images a century before the CAT and MRI. Dwight was a Harvard medical school and, later in life, succeeded Oliver Wendell Holmes as the Parkman Professor of Anatomy.
"A classical work of great importance in pediatrics, and the first American group of serial sections" (Choulant-Frank, p. 409). Good+ [Textblock Very Good]. Light even toning, tips through, wear at head and tail, ownership signature at first blank, moderate shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Black cloth boards. 8vo. Illus. (b/w plates). Item #8962

Price: $225.00

See all items in Health, Medicine & Nutrition
See all items by