THOMSON, Lectures on Inflammation, 1831

LECTURES ON INFLAMMATION, EXHIBITING A VIEW OF THE GENERAL DOCTRINES, Pathological and Practical, OF MEDICAL SURGERY. BY JOHN THOMSON, M.D. F.R.S.E. PROFESSOR OF SURGERY TO THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, AND REGIUS PROFESSOR OF MILITARY SURGERY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. SECOND AMERICAN FROM THE LAST LONDON EDITION. Philadelphia: CAREY & LEA, CHESNUT STREET. C. SHERMAN & CO. PRINTERS, 1831.
 
Octavo in new paper over boards (quarter brown over spine, blue over boards) with paper title label on spine. New end papers. Deckle edges. Crossed out numeric ink stamp and pencil mark on top of page iii. Toned and foxed but essentially unmarked. Binding tight throughout. Four unopened leaves of advertisements, much smaller than book, not of same size as each other, and apparently not original to this publication, bound in at rear.
viii, 526, rfep.
 
John Thomson (1765–1846) was president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and was considered “the most learned physician in Scotland” in his day (Dictionary of National Biography).
 
Not in Garrison-Morton, Waller, or Heirs.