Pancoast’s Quain, A Series of Anatomical Plates, 1843

A Series of Anatomical Plates; with References and Physiological Comments, Illustrating the Structure of the Different Parts of the Human body. By Jones Quain, M.D. Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the University of London. And W. J. E. Wilson, M.D. Lecturer on Practical and Surgical Anatomy and Physiology. Second Edition Revised, with Additional Notes, By Joseph Pancoast, M.D. Professor of General, Descriptive, and Surgical Anatomy in Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Lecturer on Clinical Surgery at the Philadelphia Hospital, Etc. Etc. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, Chesnut Street, for G. N. Loomis. 1843. 
 
Quarto volume with original dark brown blind-tooled boards (gold text on front board) re-margined and rebacked with black cloth. Black title label with gold cloth on spine. New end papers. Scattered mild to moderate foxing. Otherwise, clean, bright, and tight throughout. 
 
Copiously illustrated. Bones with 31 plates; Muscles with 49 plates (numbers to 50 (1 figure) and plate 48 as frontis); Vessels with 50 plates (48 in color); Nerves with 38 plates; Viscera with 32 plates; and Prospectus with 2 plates. 
 
New Ffep, frontis, title, (2), section title, 92 pages plus 31 plates, 103 pages plus 49 plates, section title, 99 pages plus 50 plates, section title, 87 pages plus 38 plates, 64 pages plus 32 plates, 4 prospectus pages plus 2 plates, new rfep. 
 
Pancoast (1805-1882) “performed the first successful operation for exstrophy of the bladder” (G-M 4170) and “devised the operative procedure of sectioning the second and third branches of the fifth pair of nerves as they emerge from the base of the brain” (G-M 4855). He was Professor of Anatomy and Surgery at Jefferson Medical College. He was a fine operator and devised a number of new surgical operations and instruments” (G-M 5598). He is eponymized in the “Pancoast tumor.” 
 
Jones Quain (1796-1865), along with Erasmus Wilson (1809-1884) originally published their anatomical drawings in five volumes (1836-1842). “This elaborate series of anatomical plates and accompanying descriptions ranks with the best nineteenth-century representations. … Quain was an anatomist and teacher of some note whose Elements of descriptive and practical anatomy (1828) went through eleven editions. Wilson, who co-edited the second through the fifth volumes, was a dermatologist and philanthropist whose fame rests largely on the role he played in the demise of flogging in the British army.” (Heirs 887). See also G-M 410, regarding Quain’s 1828 book: “Among the most important of the English textbooks on anatomy. An eleventh edition was published in 1908-29.”