Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 182

Price Realized: $ 360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
STOKES, WILLIAM. A Treatise on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Chest. Part I. Diseases of the Lung and Windpipe [all published]. Half-title. 8vo, modern 1/2 green morocco gilt; some dark spotting at beginning and end, lacks half-title. Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1837

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first edition. "Stokes . . . established his reputation by his book on diseases of the chest. Important among its contents are his discovery of a stage of pneumonia prior to that described by Laennec as the first, his observations that contraction of the side has sometimes followed the cure of pneumonia and that paralysis of the intercostal muscles and diaphragm may result from pleurisy, and his employment of the stethoscope as an aid to the detection of foreign bodies in the air passages"--Garrison-Morton 2213.