BRAIN SURGERY
New York: William Wood & Company, 1893. First Edition. Octavo, xii, 295 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in blue cloth with gilt titling to spine. Spine is missing headcap and most of tailcap (endbands both still present), has chipping and fraying to cloth at head/tail, and has toning and scuffing throughout. Boards have bumping to fore corners exposing the material below, bumping to edges, and rubbing, scuffing, and toning throughout. Text block has age-toning and scuffing to edges, and heavy dust soiling to top edge; has scuffing to pastedowns, ex-libris bookplate to front pastedown, a chip to top edge of front free endpaper, provenance marks to front free endpaper, title page, and rear endpaper, paper label to rear pastedown, and splitting to gutters, age-toning, and light scuffing throughout. Ex-library with associated stamps to endpapers. Shelved in Locked Annex Area. ND-HV..
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Published in 1893 by William Wood & Company in New York, this seminal work captured a radical turning point in medical history when the brain—long considered a delicate, uncharted territory off-limits to the surgeon's scalpel—was first being systematically mapped and operated upon. Written by Columbia University's leading professor of nervous diseases, the volume compiles early landmark cases, meticulous anatomical observations, and fifty-nine detailed illustrations guiding pioneering doctors through trephination, localized tumors, and intracranial trauma.