A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation, and Gun-Shot Wounds
by HUNTER, John
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Philadelphia: James Webster, 1817. First American edition. 8vo. 8 engraved plates by Kneass, Young & Co. viii, xii, viii, 514 pp. (Advertisement and Dedication leaves bound in reverse order). Contemporary sheep, red morocco spine label; binding scuffed, toned and foxed First American edition, first published London, 1794. Hunters last work, published the year after his death, contained his studies of inflammation and of the management of gunshot wounds, both of which subjects had been imperfectly understood before his time. He recognized the process of inflammation as one of the most widespread phenomena in pathology (Norman).REFERENCE: Garrison-Morton 2283 (first ed.); Norman 1122 (first ed.)
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- Title
- A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation, and Gun-Shot Wounds
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- HUNTER, John
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- First American edition
- Publisher
- James Webster
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1817
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