Bright, Richard / Barlow, G. Hilaro (editor).

Clinical Memoir on Abdominal Tumours and Intumescence. This is a copy number 541 of the Classics of Medicine Library.

Special edition reprint of London, The New Sydenham Society, 1860. Delanco NJ, The Classics of Medicine Library, 2003. 14 cm x 22 cm. XVIII, 326 pages. 79 woodcut illustrations. Beautifully bound Hardcover with gilt lettering and ornaments on spine with raised bands. Elaborate gilt embossment and ruling on both boards. All gilt edges with navy silk ribbon page marker. Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Near fine condition. Excellent condition within. Ex-Libris on front endpaper and rear pastedown. Bookplate on front pastedown states “This is copy number 541 of the Classics of Medicine Library.” [The Classics of Medicine Library]

Includes, for example the following: On the Examination of the Abdomen / On the Tumours Dependent Upon Acephalocyst Hydatids / Ovarian Tumours / Disease of the Spleen / Renal Disease / Diseased Liver etc.
Numerous recollected descriptions of specific cases involving the different tumours and particular presentations of illnesses throughout the book. eg Hydatid Tumours – Case 3. Hydatids development in the abdomen. Death from peritonitis / Ovarian Tumours – Case 11. Compound ovarian cyst; the fluid never removed. Death from irritation and exhaustion / Renal Tumours – Case 12. Fungous tumour of the mesentery, resembling enlarged kidney etc.

From Dr. Barlow’s preface: “There has been no English physician – perhaps it may be said none of any country – since the time of Harvey, who has effected not only so great an advance in the knowledge of particular diseases, but also so great a revolution in our habits of thought, and methods of investigating morbid phenomena and tracing the etiology of disease, as has the late Dr. Richard Bright.” (p.v)

Richard Bright, (born Sept. 28, 1789, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Eng.—died Dec. 16, 1858, London), British physician who was the first to describe the clinical manifestations of the kidney disorder known as Bright’s disease, or nephritis.
Bright excelled at making meticulous clinical observations and correlating them with careful postmortem examinations. The results of his wide-ranging researches first appeared in Reports of Medical Cases (1827), in which he established edema (swelling) and proteinuria (the presence of albumin in the urine) as the primary clinical symptoms of the serious kidney disorder that bears his name. Bright’s subsequent papers on renal disease were published in a second volume of reports (1831) and in the first volume of Guy’s Hospital Reports of 1836. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

• Keywords: [The Classics of Medicine Library] · 19th Century · 19th Century Medicine · Anatomy · Catalogue Autumn 2020 · Catalogue Nine – Medicine · Catalogue No.9 – Medicine · Disease · History of Medicine · Kidney / Renal · Medicine · Medicine – Rare
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120338AB

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