A Manual of Physical Diagnosis

New York: William Wood, 1878. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. Both illustrations included. Front hinge weakening, pencil name and ink owner stamp on front endpapers, ink owner stamp on preface page. 1878 Large Hardcover. 30 pp. A medical guide which, according to the preface, is "intended for the use of those who have to teach and to learn the art of physical diagnosis... The drawings have been prepared by Dr. Stillman, and are original... The object of the entire work is to furnish a sort of skeleton, to which each one may add the facts furnished by his own observation." Includes two anatomical charts: one with several color overlays depicting systems of internal organs; the other depicting the skeleton and labeling vertebrae and ribs. Both are protected by illustrated tissue guards. As Delafield references in the preface, room is left for notes by the book's owner: text pages alternate with blank leaves.