An Elementary Treatise on Human Anatomy with 392 Illustrations

PUBLISHED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CIVIL WAR, THIS SCARCE RICHLY ILLUSTRATED MANUAL OF ANATOMY WAS WRITTEN FOR THE MEDICAL STUDENT.

14x23 cm hardcover, full leather binding, gilt black leather label to spine with raised bands, bookplate of Robert L. Chevalier MD to front paste-down, old newspaper clipping affixed to front free endpaper, i-xxiv, 663 pp. Wear to cover edges, old water stains to page edges, most of the 392 excellent wood engravings not affected. Good+ in custom archival mylar cover.

FROM THE PREFACE: Many of the drawings accompanying the work are original, and were made by the author, or by his friend Dr. H. D. Schmidt, favorably known for his anatomical investigations. The excellent wood engravings, with few exceptions, are from the masterly hand of August Wilhelm, a. young artist of this city.

JOSEPH LEIDY (1823 1891) was an American paleontologist, parasitologist and anatomist. Leidy was professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, later was a professor of natural history at Swarthmore College and the director of scientific and educational programs at the Wagner Free Institute of Science. He served as the first president of the American Association of Anatomists. Leidy was an early American supporter of Darwin's theory of evolution, and lobbied successfully for Darwin's election to membership in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Leidy was also a renowned parasitologist, and determined as early as 1846 that trichinosis was caused by a parasite in undercooked meat.

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Publisher: J.B. Lippincott & Co.

Year: 1861

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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