Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1477

JOHN ELLIOTSON (1791-1868) The principles and practice of medicine. Carey and Hart 1844 1st American from 2nd London ed. xvi [17]-1046 [10] pp. 23.8 cm.

Elliotson was sent to Edinburgh where he received his medical degree at age nineteen. Soon thereafter he entered Cambridge, graduating with another medical degree in 1821. He was elected physician to London's St. Thomas' Hospital in 1823, became a highly successful clinical teacher, and in 1832 was appointed professor of medicine at University of London. An officer of the College of Physicians, he also delivered the College's Gulstonian and Lumleian lectures as well as the Harveian oration. Later in his career he became an ardent supporter and practitioner of mesmerism and phrenology. The present work was first published at London in 1839 and was prepared from Elliotson's lectures on medicine which had appeared in the London medical gazette. Edited by the Dublin physician, Nathaniel Rogers (fl. 1830), and Alexander Cooper Lee (fl. 1830), the book became very popular, was used in many medical schools, and appeared in German translation. In this first American edition, notes and additions have been made by Thomas Stewardson (1807-1878), physician to the Pennsylvania Hospital. The University of Iowa Libraries' copy has been inscribed by Austin Flint (see No. 1779 ff.) and his nameplate has been afixed to the cover.

See Related Record(s): 1779

Cited references: Wellcome II, p. 519