Researches on Phthisis, Anatomical, Pathological and Therapeutical

P. C. A. Louis,  Walter Hayle Walshe

C. and J. Adlard, 1846

[Interesting provenance, previously owned by Admiral C.S. Butler, and later Owen Hannaway.] Bound in publisher's green cloth. Gilt seal on front board. Top edge gilt. Hardcover. Shelf wear. Small paint stain. Gutters weakened. Edges chipped. Scattered markings. 571 pages, [2] leaves ; 23 cm. 

"Louis' researches were based on 358 dissections on 1,960 clinical cases, and included a numerical study of extrapulmonary lesions. He was an expert morbid anatomist." Garrison-Morton 

Charles S. Butler (1875-1944), a native of Tennessee and an admiral in the United States Navy, entered the Medical Corps of the Navy in 1900. He was an American pioneer in Tropical Medicine.  

From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).