Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 46

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On the Nerves of the Face; being a Second Paper on that Subject. in: Philosophical Transactions . . . for the Year MDCCCXXIX, Volume 119, Part 2, pages 317-30. iv, [2], [241]-370, [2], 12, [8] pages, with 3 engraved plates (darkened in margins). 4to, modern 1/4 cloth; without publisher's slip announcing availability of back issues. . London, 1829

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first edition of a more detailed account (with 2 plates) of "Bell's Palsy," the form of facial paralysis he had first described in a paper in the same journal in 1821. Garrison-Morton 4520 note.
Pages 255-60 of this volume contain Bransby Blake Cooper's Anatomical Description of the Foot of a Chinese Female, with a plate, giving a thorough analysis of the effects of foot-binding based on his dissection of a foot removed from the corpse of a drowned Cantonese woman.