A Complete Practical Work on the Nature and Treatment of Venereal Diseases, and Other Affections of the Genito-Urinary Organs of the Male and Female

New York: Burgess, Stringer & Co., 1848.
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30.5cm x 23cm. [vi], xvi, [17]-348 pages, frontispiece portrait, 37 colour plates (20 half-page), black and white illustrations in the text. Rebacked original blindstamped brown cloth, retaining the original backstrip.

Graphic 1840s American venereal pathology. A New York surgeon’s illustrated treatise, arguing that the profession’s neglect of venereal disease had left much of its treatment to quacks. With the tipped-in leaf certifying Bostwick’s competency as physician and surgeon, bearing the facsimile signatures of Valentine Mott, Willard Parker, Granville Sharp Pattison, John Murray Carnochan and some twenty other New York physicians; this copy with the ownership signatures of W. N. Duane MD and Dr J. D. Jones.

Some shelf wear. Creasing to frontispiece portrait and final text leaf. Occasional foxing. Very Good Condition.

AU$400