The Collected Works of Dr. William Ingalls: A Sammelband of 7 Pamphlets

Dr. William Ingalls (1769–1851)

J.T. Buckingham; various Boston, 1814

[Dr. William Ingalls: a sammelband of 7 pamphlets : SIGNED BY INGALLS]  8vo. Bound in full red calf, paneled in gilt.  Spine gilt in 5 compartments.  Gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt. Rubbed. Front board detached.  Genealogical society bookplate. 

Contents: 1. A presentation copy to the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, Sketch of William Ingalls. The Polyanthos for February, 1814; 2. An Essay on the Ganglionary System of Nerves in the Cavity of the Cranium, 1832; 3. A Lecture on the Subject of Phrenology, 1839;  4. On Scarlatina, 1839; 5. A Treatise on Malignant Fever and Vomito Priesto, 1847; 6. Remarks on Yellow Fever... A Letter Addressed to William Ingalls, 1841; 7. A Case of Typhus or Ship Fever, 1848.  

Ingalls was a professor of anatomy and surgery in Brown University (1811–1823).  He is reputedly the first doctor in America to amputate at the shoulder joint for a gunshot injury.  "He married Lucy Myrick Ridgeway and their son was William Ingalls (1813–1903), a visiting surgeon at the Boston City Hospital and an obstetrician of some note." - American Medical Biographies  (1920)   p. 592.  Additional Refs: Hist. Cat. Brown Univ., 1764–1894.; Dict'n'y Amer. Biog., F. S. Drake. Boston, 1872.; A Century of Amer. Med., Phila., 1876, S. D. Gross, M.D., p. 161.