William rutty m d (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. 4to. [8], 54, [6] pp. With four copper plates. With a half-title and a final errata and advertisement leaf. In sugar-paper covered, calf-backed boards. In March 1722 Rutty delivered the Gulstonian lectures at the College of Physicians on the anatomy and diseases of the urinary organs, and published them in 1726 as A Treatise of the Urinary Passages, with a dedication to Sir Hans Sloane. The work relates two distinctive cases: one in the practice of John Bamber, lithotomist to St. Bartholomew's Hospital of calcified concretions in the caecum giving rise to symptoms resembling renal colic and the other of double renal calculus in the daughter of Sir Hugh Myddelton, from a note by Francis Glisson. Covers a little rubbed and grubby, but binding still tight and contents clean and bright. Leather slightly chipped at head. Very slight damp-staining to tail of text. Title page with ownership inscription: "Ex Libris Tho: Brand 1730". ESTC T75415.…