Book Details + Condition: Lea and Blanchard (Philadelphia). Early Edition, 1843. Hardcover with full leather boards. 480 pages plus advertisements. Dr. William Lawrence's signature text on medical ruptures, with anatomical description. Chapters include:
- General Description of Ruptures
- Causes of Ruptures
- Symptoms of Ruptures
- Treatment of Reducible Ruptures
- Radical Cure of Ruptures
- Blood Letting
- Tobacco Clysters
- Use of Cupping-Glasses
- Anatomy of Inguinal Ruptures
- And much more.
Firm binding; rubbing and wear to exterior leather; periodic foxing, mainly to first and last few pages; interior is otherwise clean and free of markings.
