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PEMBERTON, Christopher Robert. A Practical Treatise on Various Diseases of the Abdominal Viscera.
Worcester: Published by Geo. A. Trumbull, 1815. While this states ‘First American Edition' on the title-page, it is actually a ‘reissue of the sheets of the first American edition, corrected' published by Trumbull in Leicester in 1814.' Tall 8vo., recently rebound in full brown panelled calf, raised bands, gilt compartments, leather spine label (after the period), (xii), (1)-201pp. With two plates. The usual foxing and browning o/w a near fine copy.
Christopher Robert Pemberton [1765-1822] English physician. This is Pemberton's only published work in which he emphasizes the need for early detection of symptoms in order to slow the advances of abdominal diseases, which if left unchecked will proceed ‘through various stages of increasing malignity, till they at length terminate in fatal, and irreparable evil.' The work includes chapters on the peritoneum; the liver; the gall bladder; the pancreas; the spleen; the kidneys; the stomach; and the intestines. Austin 1473; Heirs of Hippocrates 1207 citing the London: 1806 edition.