Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1629

JAMES HOPE (1801-1841) Principles and illustrations of morbid anatomy. Whittaker 1834 vii, iv, 305 [v]-xcv pp., [48] leaves of col. plates. 25.2 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 1628

Hope budgeted his time for research and writing carefully, which enabled him to accomplish much during his short medical career. The present encyclopedic work met with great success and was soon translated into German (although printed without the plates) and Russian. The book contains sections on diseases of the respiratory, gastrointestinal, urogenital, and nervous systems as well as other major organs. Hope covers common as well as uncommon pathological conditions and provides ample case histories and descriptive notes. The plates contain 260 figures drawn by Hope from original specimens and their colors remain bright and clear even today. It was the finest work of the time but the excellence of his drawings was surpassed by Carswell's work (see No. 1501) only a few years later.

See Related Record(s): 1501

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 2289; Wellcome III, p. 299

Gift of John Martin, M.D.