BRIGHT RICHARD Reports of Medical Cases 2 vols in 3 1827 3

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BRIGHT'S REPORTS BRIGHT, RICHARD. Reports of Medical Cases, selected with a View of illustrating the Symptoms and Cure of Diseases by a Reference to Morbid Anatomy. 54 plates comprising 47 hand-colored aquatints and 7 uncolored lithographs. Half-titles in Volumes 2/1 and 2/2, lacking in Volume 1. Errata leaf in Volume 2/1. 2 volumes in 3. 4to, 315x245 mm, modern 1/2 calf; light dampstaining at end of Volume 2/2 affecting last several plates, institutional stamp on titles, some text leaves, recto of 8 plates, and some versos. London: Richard Taylor for Longman et al., 1827-31

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first edition. "Although the name of Bright is perpetuated by his classic description of chronic non-suppurative nephritis, known eponymically as 'Bright's disease,' the Reports contain numerous other outstanding contributions to general pathology, neuropathology, as well as nephrology. Bright differentiated renal from cardiac dropsy (oedema) and was first to correlate this and the previously observed albuminuria with the nephritic changes observed at autopsy. Vol. 2, published in 2 parts, is one of the earliest and most important atlases of neuropathology"--Garrison-Morton 2285. Garrison-McHenry, page 255; Heirs of Hippocrates 1451; Norman 341 ("the work's engraved plates, meticulously hand-colored to accord with Bright's descriptions . . . are among the beautiful of medical illustrations").