Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1643

LANGSTON PARKER (1803-1871) The stomach in its morbid states. A. Waldie 1839 vi [7]-194 pp. 21.9 cm.

A native of Birmingham, Parker completed his medical studies at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London and returned to Birmingham where he succeeded his father in practice. Consulting surgeon to Queen's Hospital and Leamington Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, he was also a founder of Queen's College where he served in the chair of anatomy for a quarter of a century. This work was first published at London in 1838 and it appeared in the United States in Dunglison's American medical library the following year. Although Parker had written on diseases of the stomach a few years earlier, this book had a different emphasis in that it was devoted "principally to the consideration of the primary morbid conditions of the stomach, and the diseases they induce, by sympathy, in remote parts, as the liver, lungs, heart, and brain" (Preface, p. [v]).

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