SYLLABUS OF THE COURSE OF LECTURES ON THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SURGERY
Philadelphia: Barrett & Jones, 1847. Third Edition. Thick Octavo, 212, [639] pages; VG-; bound in contemporary quarter leather, marbled paper boards, black leather label and gilt to spine; some general shelf wear and rubbing, small red stain to spine; armorial bookplate to front pastedown; interleaved copy with three leaves per printed page, extensively annotated in a contemporary hand on both the printed pages and the additional leaves for the first half of the text, second half largely unnoted; ink name to title page, upper fore corner torn off; some mild foxing and toning to text block; previous owner bookplate to inside front pastedown "Henry Hobart Curtiss, M. D.;" MF consignment.
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Third edition of an outline of the lectures given by Mütter (1811-59) as professor of surgery at Jefferson Medical College. His collection of pathological specimens formed the basis of the Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.; Presumed Third Edition, following the 1843 Merrihew & Thompson and the 1846 Barrett and Jones.