Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1384

SIR BENJAMIN COLLINS BRODIE (1783-1862) Lectures on the diseases of the urinary organs. Lea and Blanchard 1843 [4] vii [1] [9]-214 [32] pp. 23.2 cm.

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Brodie first published this treatise at London in 1832 but, even though the work was highly acclaimed in England, it did not appear in the United States until the present work was published from the third London edition. Timothy Holmes, a surgeon and Brodie's biographer, commented: "Suffice it to say that this work, though I think it is admittedly inferior to that on diseases of the joints in originality, because its subject had been much better worked out by previous authors than diseases of the joints had been, shares in the other excellences of that great treatise. It is emphatically a practical book, resting on the firm foundation of pathology, and supported in all its reasonings and conclusions by the author's immense experience and unfailing accuracy of observation" (Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie. New York, 1898. p. 152).

Cited references: Cushing B689; Wellcome II, p. 243 (1st London ed., 1832)