Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1999

HENRY MUNSON LYMAN (1835-1904) The practical home doctor. America Publishing Co. 1907 Rev. & enl. ed. 1157 pp., [21] plates (20 col. (port.)), illus. 23.1 cm.

Home medical guides began to appear in increasing numbers during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Although these works were extremely popular and were frequently reprinted or reissued in new editions, they were often of questionable value. However, this compendium is much superior to those ordinarily found, most likely because of the status and qualifications of the authors. All four were well known Chicago physicians with broad experience in medical practice and teaching. Lyman prepared the work in collaboration with Christian Fenger (1840-1902), Henry Webster Jones (b. 1835), and William Thomas Belfield (1856-1929). Lyman was professor of physiology and nervous diseases at Rush Medical College, Fenger is particularly remembered as being one of the great Chicago surgeons and is considered to be the father of modern pathological surgery, Jones, a grandson of Noah Webster (see No. 1160), received his medical degree from Yale and was gynecologist and obstetrician at Cook County Hospital for many years, and Belfield held appointments as professor of genitourinary and venereal diseases at Chicago Polyclinic and as professor of genitourinary surgery at Rush Medical College. The frontispiece portrait is that of Fenger, professor of clinical surgery at Rush Medical College. Anatomy, physiology, and the commoner human ailments are clearly discussed in a well organized manner. There are full page colored plates of the vascular system, the skeleton, a number of medicinal plants, a human mid-section with six movable flaps, and a side view of the human head with three overlays. The work was first published at Chicago in 1883 and went through numerous editions.

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