Lectures on the Physiology and Diseases of the Chest, Including the Principles of Physical and General Diagnosis. (Select Medical Library Extras Series)

Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1839. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Former library copy, usual marks. Joints beginning to split, lightly foxed throughout, ink names on endpapers and title page. 1839 Full-Leather. 347 pp. 8vo. 4-page publisher ad precedes title page, 8-page terminal publisher ad. Full leather, green leather spine label, gilt titles and rules. A transcript of lectures by the British physician, originally delivered at the Anatomical School, Kinnerton Street, near St. George's Hospital during the spring seasons of 1836 and 1837. Only published in book form in the United States. Williams was a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the College of Physicians, and served as president of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society for several years. He was among the first to adopt new techniques for physical examination, and became a specialist in the field discussed in this book.