Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1586

GEORGE BACON WOOD (1797-1879) A treatise on the practice of medicine. Grigg, Elliot, and Co. 1849 2nd ed. Vol. I: [4] xvi, 806 pp.; Vol. II: 816 pp., plate. 22.9 cm.

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In explaining why he wrote this comprehensive work, Wood commented that he had "no other excuse to offer than this; that he has written in obedience to impulses which he could not well resist" (Preface, p. [v]). The first edition was published at Philadelphia in 1847 and it became popular as a textbook in the United States as well as England and Scotland.