BELL, Benjamin

A Treatise on the Theory and Management of Ulcers: With a Dissertation of White Swellings of the Joints. To Which is Prefixed, an Essay on the Chirurgical Treament of Inflammation and its Consequences

Boston: I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1791. 8vo. 295 pp. including index. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Engraved frontispiece of a joint abscess and surgical tools to deal with it. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked; some browning and spotting due to paper stock. Bookplate of Alfred M. Hellman, signature and stamp of Amory Gale (1800-1873), an allopathic physician from the Northeast who ultimately turned to homeopathy, with manuscript dates of 1794 and 1827. Item #18669

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