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HENNEN, John. Principles Of Military Surgery, Comprising Observations on the Arrangement< Police, and Practice of Hospitals, and on the History, Treatment, and Anomalies of Variola and Syphilis. Illustrated With Cases and Dissections By....With Life of the Author, by his Son, Dr. John Hennen.
London: John Wilson, 1829. Third edition. Tall 8vo., orig. cloth backed boards, printed paper spine label, (10),(xxviii), (1)- (584)pp. Name clipped from top of the title-page, contemporary gift inscription on the dedication leaf, name on the half-title, some wear to the corners of the boards with a 2” piece of paper off the upper rear corner, some chipping to the spine label affecting some of the title but this is in fact a much better than very good copy in the original boards. Heirs of Hippocrates 1346 citing this edition; G & M 2162 citing the first edition, 1818.
John Hennen [1779-1828] Irish born surgeon, who received his medical education in Edinburgh, and spent his entire career in active military service. ‘In this work, a comprehensive and popular treatise, Hennen includes a chapter on malingering in which he recounts in detail the many ruses employed by soldiers to avoid duty. Also included are chapters on the history and treatment of smallpox and syphilis. The work was first published at Edinburgh in 1818 as Observations on some important points in the practice of military surgery. This third and last edition is the first to contain a life of the author, written by his son, John (1800-1871).' (Heirs of Hippocrates). The second edition included plates but as noted in the Preface to the Third Edition, ‘the plates, which added to the expense of the second edition, without conferring any practical benefit, have in this been cancelled, and in lieu of them a short Biographical Sketch of the Author has been prefixed.' Both the first and the third editions do not have plates called for.
$850
HENNEN, John. Principles Of Military Surgery, Comprising Observations on the Arrangement< Police, and Practice of Hospitals, and on the History, Treatment, and Anomalies of Variola and Syphilis. Illustrated With Cases and Dissections By....With Life of the Author, by his Son, Dr. John Hennen. London: John Wilson, 1829. Third edition. Tall 8vo., orig. cloth backed boards, printed paper spine label, (10),(xxviii), (1)- (584)pp. Name clipped from top of the title-page, contemporary gift inscription on the dedication leaf, name on the half-title, some wear to the corners of the boards with a 2” piece of paper off the upper rear corner, some chipping to the spine label affecting some of the title but this is in fact a much better than very good copy in the original boards. Heirs of Hippocrates 1346 citing this edition; G & M 2162 citing the first edition, 1818.
John Hennen [1779-1828] Irish born surgeon, who received his medical education in Edinburgh, and spent his entire career in active military service. ‘In this work, a comprehensive and popular treatise, Hennen includes a chapter on malingering in which he recounts in detail the many ruses employed by soldiers to avoid duty. Also included are chapters on the history and treatment of smallpox and syphilis. The work was first published at Edinburgh in 1818 as Observations on some important points in the practice of military surgery. This third and last edition is the first to contain a life of the author, written by his son, John (1800-1871).' (Heirs of Hippocrates). The second edition included plates but as noted in the Preface to the Third Edition, ‘the plates, which added to the expense of the second edition, without conferring any practical benefit, have in this been cancelled, and in lieu of them a short Biographical Sketch of the Author has been prefixed.' Both the first and the third editions do not have plates called for.
$850
