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SOLLY, Samuel. Surgical Experiences: The Substance of Clinical Lectures.
London: Robert Hardwicke, 1865. First edition. Tall thick 8vo., orig. green blindstamped cloth, (xii), (1)-656pp. This copy has been professionally rebacked with the original spine laid down o/w a better than very good copy.
‘Born in London in 1805. Solly was apprentice to Benjamin Travers, Surgeon at St. Thomas's Hospital, in 1822. On the completion of his apprenticeship in 1828, Solly was admitted to the College of Surgeons and pursued further medical education in France before beginning practice in 1831. Lectured in physiology and anatomy at St. Thomas's from 1833-1839 and was an Assistant Surgeon from 1841-1853. At the time of his death he was a Surgeon and Lecturer on Surgery. During his life he held several offices within the medical societies of England. He was a council member and examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of England and an Arris and Gale professor of Human Anatomy and surgery as well as having been a fellow of the Royal Society early in his career. He also served as the President of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society'. (Heirs of Hippocrates 1674.5 citing a different work).