Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1653

ELISHA BARTLETT (1804-1855) An essay on the philosophy of medical science. Lea & Blanchard 1844 xii, 312, 34 (misnumbered 32) pp. 22.3 cm.

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Writing in Howard A. Kelly's A cyclopedia of American medical biography (Philadelphia, 1912), Osler commented that the present work, "a classic in American medical literature, is the most characteristic of Bartlett's works, and the one to which in the future students will turn most often, since it represents one of the most successful attempts to apply the principles of deductive reasoning to medicine, and it moreover illustrates the mental attitude of an acute and thoughtful observer in the middle of the century" (p. 52).

Cited references: Osler 1960

Gift of William B. Bean, M.D