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Heirs of Hippocrates

The Development of Medicine in a Catalogue of Historic Books

Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1915.5

HENRY GRAY (1825-1861) On the structure and use of the spleen. J. W. Parker and son 1854 2 p. l., [vii]-xix, 380 p. illus. 22 cm.

FIRST EDITION. Partially unopened copy from Univ of Edinburgh Library (with bookplate and tiny stamp). Contains long historical intro (52pp). Goss – in his pamphlet on Gray – states that ‘it contains fundamental and important embryological discoveries’, that were acknowledged by Muller (pp 16-20), and that the book itself is of ‘considerable rarity.’

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