"A case in which the gladiolus was trephined for pus pent up in the anterior mediastinum." with: DICKINSON, William Howship (1832-1913). "Introductory lecture on the differences between children and adults in regard to morbid action and the effects of treatment." by BALLANCE, Sir Charles Alfred (1856-1936) - 1888

In [London]:: The Lancet. . ., Vol. II, No. XVIII, (November 3, 1888)., 1888. 283 x 199 mm. 4to. 857-859; 851-853 pp. (Entire vol.: 36 [ads], (851)-900, 37-70 [ads] pp. Illus. Self wraps; extremities chipped, top cover off, soiled. Ex library rubber stamps on top cover and page 851. Good. FIRST EDITION. Sir Charles Ballance was a skilled neurosurgeon and contributed many ideas that were quite modern for their day. Ballance was the youngest of four brothers who were all physicians. He received his medical education at University College, London, served with the British Expeditionary Force during World War I, and returned to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital where he was consulting surgeon for many years. Ballance was one of the first neurosurgeons to perform a radical mastoidectomy with ligation of the jugular vein and one of the earliest to graft the facial nerve. In 1865, William Howship Dickinson, of Brighton, England, demonstrated that the proximal stump of a severed nerve eventually undergoes atrophy.