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CHEYNE, JOHN. An Essay on Hydrocephalus Acutus, or Dropsy in the Brain. 201, [2] pages, including final ad leaf. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 red straight-grain morocco; contents browned. Philadelphia, 1814
first edition. "Cheyne's Essay, one of the first noteworthy monographs on neuropathology to appear in the nineteenth century, contains the first description of acute hydrocephalus or basilar (tuberculous) meningitis, a disease that primarily affects children"--Norman 472. Garrison-Morton 4635; Garrison-McHenry, pages 248-49 (all citing the 1808 Edinburgh original edition); Austin 457 (this edition).
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