Principles and Practice of Medicine Designed for the Use
Item #79416
OSLER, William. The Principles and Practice of Medicine Designed for the Use of Practitioners and Students of Medicine. Edinburgh: Young J. Pentland, 1892. 1st UK ed. xvii,1079pp. Charts. Orig. cloth, housed in blue-morocco backed clamshell box. Cloth gently rubbed, light wear to foot of spine and lower corners, inner hinges starting, else very good. Garrison-Morton 2231; Golden & Roland 1375; Norman 2231; Grolier 82. Norman 1612: "One of the most influential textbooks of general medicine ever written." Preceded by the New York edition of the same year, this is apparently the same text setting with a cancelled title-page and different advertisements at the end. As with the first issue, the unfortunate spelling error of "Georgias" for "Gorgias" appears on the verso of the third leaf. "The timing of the textbook was almost perfect. Principles and Practice was at once a monument to the achievements of nineteenth-century scientific medicine and a gateway to the twentieth century.... Its merits, apart from the up-to-date content, were its extreme clarity, Osler's straightforward style, and the sense he conveyed that medicine was anything but cut-and-dried." Michael Bliss, William Osler: A Life in Medicine, pp 185-186.
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