Anatomy Notes

1890 LITHOGRAPHED CURSIVE ANATOMY NOTES FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA BY BELOVED UVA PROFESSOR OF ANATOMY, WILLIAM B. TOWLES. 11 inches tall hardcover, new black cloth binding, gilt leather label to spine, new endpapers, signature of "'Colonel Jube' Woods, Buckingham Palace" top of title page, "University" spelled as "NNiversity", edges darkened, pages age-toned, text in cursive script reproduced by lithography. Copious pencil notes inscribed between the printed lines throughout, presumably by a medical student. These notes include the date "Nov 1 '92" on page 176. Overall good+. WILLIAM BEVERLEY TOWLES (1847 - 1893) was born in Fluvanna County, Virginia, March 7th, 1847. He was descended from a family well-known in Virginia annals, his grandfather being Major Oliver Towles of the war of 1812, and his great-grandfather Colonel Oliver Towles of Revolutionary fame. His father was Dr. W. B. Towles, who practiced extensively in Fluvanna and Cumberland counties. So well did lie prepare himself that when he entered f the Medical Department of the University of Virginia, in 1868, he already " knew his text-books by heart." In spite of a serious attack of typhoid fever, he obtained his degree in one year. From 1869 to 1872 he practiced medicine in Missouri, where he made many friends. In the latter year he returned to the University of Virginia, having accepted the position of Demonstrator of Anatomy, tendered him by Dr. John Staige Davis. He kept this position until 1885, when, after the death of the gifted Davis, he made Professor of Anatomy and Materia Medica. In 1886 he was elected Professor of Anatomy at the University of Vermont. Towles had his "Notes on Anatomy," which he had prepared while Demonstrator, lithographed, and copies of these were supplied to the students. These books, however, were so full of clerical mistakes that he determined to have the " Notes " printed, and in this form they are now introduced to the profession. Had he lived he would have elaborated it into a complete text-book worthy of his knowledge and reputation as an anatomist. As it is, the book can give no adequate conception of his ability as a teacher; it is but a " faint adumbration " of the lectures delivered by him. Biographical Sketch of the Author by RICHARD II. WHITEHEAD. University of .North Carolina, November 15 th, 1893, preface to Notes on Anatomy by Wm. B. Towles, 1893. HEAVY ITEM--INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING COSTS.

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Publisher: Anderson Bros., University of Virginia

Year: 1890

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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