On faith and science in surgery / by Sir John Bland-Sutton
1930, First Edition. London : W. Heinemann ltd. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #238171
Provenance; from the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute with its bookplate and minor library marks; includes a presentation bookplate from the Birmingham Medical Institute, being presented by Sir John Bland-Sutton. Physical description; xii, 109 pages, 1 unnumbered page including frontispiece, illustrations ; 22 cm. Notes; "Addresses delivered during the Quinquenniad (1925-30), in various cities ... re-edited"-Pref. Several chapters include bibliographies. Contents; Faith in ligatures.--Faith in drugs.--Food and physic.--Psychology of conjoined twins.--Psychology of animals swallowed alive.--Hydrocephalus.--Parasitic origin of man.--The conquest of sepsis.--Avian tuberculosis.--The blood trail. Subjects; General Surgery. Surgery - History. History of medicine. Folklore. Anecdotes. Medicine. Addresses. Genres; Bibliography. Essays. Illustrated.
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