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INSCRIBED PERCIVAL, THOMAS. Essays Medical and Experimental. Half-titles. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked and shellacked, endpapers renewed apart from Volume 1 pastedown with Cushing inscription; contents of first volume foxed. London, 1777-73
Third edition of the first volume, first edition of the second.inscribed and signed by cushing to the neurosurgeon Sir Geoffrey Jefferson (1886-1961): "Introducing Geoffrey Jefferson to a fellow townsman Harvey Cushing June 1927." Prior to visiting Manchester to attend a meeting of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons, Cushing had written to Jefferson expressing his desire to visit the home of Thomas Percival (1740-1804, best-known for his 1794 book on medical ethics), whom Jefferson proceeded look up in the local phone book. See Fulton, Harvey Cushing, page 549.
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