Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1363

ALLAN BURNS (1781-1813) Observations on the surgical anatomy of the head and neck. F. Lucas, Jr., E. J. Coale, and Cushing & Jewett; H. Carey & I. Lea 1823 1st American ed. 512 pp., 10 plates. 21 cm.

Burns was one of the first to recognize mitral stenosis as a distinct disease entity, and he gave one of the earliest descriptions of the heart murmur mechanism. This highly regarded surgical treatise was written while Burns was on the anatomy and surgery faculty at Glasgow.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 405 (1st Edinburgh ed., 1811); Osler 2189; Waller 1663 (1st Edinburgh ed.); Wellcome II, p. 276 (1st Edinburgh ed.)