Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2243

SIR HUMPHRY DAVY ROLLESTON (1862-1944) Diseases of the liver, gall-bladder and bile-ducts. Macmillan 1912 [2nd ed.]. xv, 811 [5] pp., 7 col. plates (front.), 108 illus. 22.4 cm.

Rolleston, the eminent medical historian and physician, was educated at Cambridge where he received his medical degree in 1892. He was appointed to the Cambridge faculty where he became a good friend of Sir Clifford Allbutt and succeeded him as Regius professor of physic in 1925. Rolleston was the only physician besides Glisson (see No. 472 ff.) to serve as professor of physic at Cambridge and president of the Royal College of Physicians. The present work was the most authoritative treatise of its time on the subject and was first published at London in 1905. Unlike many authors, Rolleston elected not to discuss the normal anatomy and physiology of liver and gall bladder but instead concentrated more fully on the pathological aspects of his subject.

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Cited references: Garrison-Morton 3657 (3rd ed., 1929)

Gift of Robert N. Larimer, M.D