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HEWSON, ADDINELL. Earth as a Topical Application in Surgery. 4 engraved plates after photographs showing patients and their treatment results. Small 8vo, original cloth, varnished, gilt spine lettering dulled, front joint cracked. Bookplate of G. N. J. Sommer, M.D. Philadelphia, 1887
Second edition of an eccentric work on dressing technique originally published in 1872. The first edition was one of the first American medical books illustrated with photomechanical plates, containing Woodburytypes that were replaced with engravings in the second edition. "Hewson extols the use of earth applied as a treatment dressing preoperatively, intraoperatively, and postoperatively . . . The contents include ninety-three case histories and comments as to the importance of the contact of earth, including its effects on pain, its power as a deodorizer, its influence over inflammation and putrefaction, and its effect on the healing processes. The book is extremely scarce and provides unusual reading in light of today's terms sepsis and antisepsis. It must be assumed that the 'earth' which Hewson utilized contained a type of mold which had an antibiotic effect. If more inquisitive and inventive minds had paid attention to Hewson's results, the development of antibiotics might have occurred sooner"--Rutkow GS76. Burns, Early Medical Photography in America, page 1241.
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