Item #237889 Orations and addresses / by Sir John Bland-Sutton. John Sir Bland-Sutton.

Orations and addresses / by Sir John Bland-Sutton

1924, 1st edition. London : W. Heinemann. Presentation copy. Provenance: Birmingham Medical Institute (with accompanying bookplate and stamp). Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine binds and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #237889

Physical description; xii, 161 p.: ill., ports.; 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Incomplete contents Contents.--The Hunterian oration.--Hunter and Portugal.--Surgery in the eighteenth century.--The surgeon of the future.--Science and surgery.--The war pathological collection of the College of surgeons.--Spolia nemoralia.--Cranial morphology.--Choroid plexuses, arachnoid tufts and psammomas.--Pacchionian tumours and cranial exostoses.--Choroid plexuses as secreting organs.--The habits of tumours. Subjects; Hunter, John 1728-1793. Medicine. Addresses. History of medicine. Surgery. Medicine, Essays, etc. Biography - HUNTER, John - Surgery - History.

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