Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1504

EDWARD STANLEY (1793-1862) A treatise on diseases of the bones. Lea and Blanchard 1849 xxiv [25]-286 [2] 32 pp. 23 cm.

Stanley served his medical apprenticeship at London's St. Bartholomew's Hospital, remained to become a demonstrator of anatomy, and, together with Abernethy (see No. 1193 ff.), was appointed lecturer on anatomy and physiology in 1826. He was elected assistant surgeon at the hospital in 1816 and surgeon in 1838, a position he held for twenty-three years. Stanley was twice elected president of the Royal College of Surgeons and was appointed surgeon extraordinary to Queen Victoria several years before his death. He was the first to describe disease of the posterior columns of the spinal cord in 1839 and was especially interested in bone growth and the pathology of bone diseases. Following the work of Petit (see No. 776) and Boyer's Leçons sur les maladies des os (Paris, 1803), Stanley's treatise was an important contribution to the knowledge of bone diseases and remained an authoritative source for many years.

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