Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2064

NICHOLAS SENN (1844-1908) Surgical bacteriology. Lea Brothers 1891 2nd ed. viii [17]-271 pp., 13 plates (7 col.), illus. 23 cm.

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Bacteriology had had a great impact on surgical pathology and it was well known that bacteria were a common cause of wound infections. Senn was among the surgeons who first wrote on the subject. The first edition of this work in 1889 sold so well that Senn was asked to prepare this second edition only two years later. It was Senn's purpose to acquaint his readers with the hereditary transmission of microbes, sources of infection, the nature and character of bacterial infections, as well as a number of specific manifestations of bacteria in surgical wounds. Eight plates in this work were reproduced from Theodor Albrecht Edwin Klebs' (1834-1913) Lehrbuch der pathologischen Anatomie (Jena, 1887).

Gift of Mrs. Diana A. Stokes