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Mechanical Therapeutics. Surgical Apparatus, Appliances, and Elementary Operations; Embracing Bandaging, Minor Surgery, Orthopraxy, and the Treatment of Fractures and Dislocations
by Wales, Philip S
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1867. First Edition. 8vo.xxiv, [33] - 685, [2], 32 pp Publisher's catalogue. Index. 642 wood-engraved text illustrations. Tan leather with gilt-lettered black leather title label on spine, gilt ruling. Illustrated bookplate for A. Parker Lewis, M.D. inside front board. A very good copy (wear to extremities; rubbing to title label; hinge cracked but holding at pg. 384; section 387 - 398 pulled away from text block; ink notation for book location above bookplate; previous owner name stamp on upper and lower text blocks). An uncommon and early work on surgical operations, apparatus and appliances, treatments and more. "In offering to the profession the present volume on mechanical therapeutics, the author would state that his design is to place in the hands of students and practitioners of medicine a systematized and condensed description of surgical dressings, apparatus, and elementary operations, drawn from the writings and teaching of the ablest surgeons in America and Europe"--Preface.
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- Bookseller
- Carpe Diem Fine Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21776
- Title
- Mechanical Therapeutics. Surgical Apparatus, Appliances, and Elementary Operations; Embracing Bandaging, Minor Surgery, Orthopraxy, and the Treatment of Fractures and Dislocations
- Author
- Wales, Philip S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Henry C. Lea
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1867
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Carpe Diem Fine Books offers a discriminating selection of out-of-print, signed and unusual books in all fields – with an emphasis on the history and literature of California and the West. Proprietors James Bryant and Mary Hill have served an international clientele of private collectors and libraries since 1995. Their book gallery, located in a charming 1930's Carmel stone building just steps from the Robert Louis Stevenson House in historic Old Monterey, features a constantly changing inventory - from the classics to the unexpected.
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- Rubbing
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- Gilt
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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