Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2121

SIR WILLIAM OSLER (1849-1919) The principles and practice of medicine. D. Appleton 1892 [1st ed., 1st issue]. xvi [1] 1079 pp., illus., diagrs. 23.5 cm.

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This book . . . gained and maintained a place in English, American, and even continental practice only comparable with that held by the treatise of Sir Thomas Watson (1843) in the decades preceding. The clear, concise, attractive presentation and the many citations from history and the classics, give it a unique place among scientific books with an essentially literary flavor (Note by F. H. Garrison in Maude E. Abbott, Classified . . . bibliography of Sir William Osler's publications. Montreal, 1939. p. 62). The first issue is distinguished from the second by the misspelling of Plato's Gorgias as "Georgias" on the verso of the third leaf. Further distinction is given to this copy of Osler's textbook by the following inscription in Osler's hand: "The Doctor's Thomas with the author's love and thanks. W. O." The Larimer collection also contains the second issue of the same year, the third issue (1893), and no fewer than eighteen additional editions and issues.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 2231; Osler 3543 (1st issue), 3544 (2nd issue); Waller 7031 (1901 ed.)