John Hunter and His Pupils
Philadelphia: Presley Blakiston, 1881. Hardcover. Green gilt decorated and embossed publishers cloth. Frontis portrait, 106 pp. with index. Good-, inner hinge paper cracked but cloth holding well and not broken. Rear inner hinge paper not cracked or broken. Some spotting to covers and slight wear at extremitiesm but corners are sharp and text block is tight Inked inscription on ffep, penciled notations on title-page at base. Item #167170
A nice copy of the first edition, first printing of this pioneering biography of Hunter, written by Samuel D. Gross, the father of American Trauma surgery (and who was immortalized in a famous Thomas Eakins painting titles "The Gross Clinic." Gross was prolific in his writing, and Hunter is described on Wiki as"John Hunter FRS (13 February 1728 – 16 October 1793) was a Scottish surgeon, one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day, and a grave-robber. He was an early advocate of careful observation and scientific method in medicine. He was a teacher of, and collaborator with, Edward Jenner, pioneer of the smallpox vaccine.He also stole Charles Byrne's body and proceeded to study and exhibit it against the deceased's explicit wishes. His wife, Anne Hunter (née Home), was a poet, some of whose poems were set to music by Joseph Haydn."
OCLC: 561031795
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