Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1698

ROBERT WILLIAM SMITH (1807-1873) A treatise on fractures in the vicinity of joints, and on certain forms of accidental and congenital dislocations. Hodges and Smith; New York: Samuel S. & William Wood 1854 x [2] 314 pp., illus. 21.4 cm.

Smith is regarded as one of Ireland's most eminent surgeons and anatomists. He was the first appointee to the chair of surgery at Trinity College, served as lecturer on surgery at the Richmond Hospital School of Medicine, and was surgeon to the Talbot Dispensary and the Lunatic Asylum at Island Bridge. Together with Stokes (see No. 1663 ff.), he founded the Pathological Society and served as its secretary for many years. He described generalized neurofibromatosis (Recklinghausen's disease) in A treatise on the pathology, diagnosis, and treatment of neuroma (Dublin, 1849) over thirty years before Recklinghausen published his findings. The present work was first published at Dublin in 1847 and met with widespread success because of Smith's expert treatment of a difficult subject. The 200 illustrations were extremely well executed.

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