Selected Monographs: Raynauld's Two Essays on Local Asphyxia. Klebs and Crudeli On The Nature of Malaria. Marchiafava and Celli on The Origin of Melan Aemia. Neugebauer on Spondyl-Olisthesis.
London: New Sydenham Society, 1888. From the library of Dr. C.B. Farrar with his signature and bookplate.
Tall 8vo., orig. brown blindstamped cloth with a small decoration on the upper cover, various pagination.
A fine copy.
Dr. Clarence B. Farrar [1874-1970] "trained under several of the foremost medical scholars of his era beginning with Osler and then at Heidelberg under Kraepelin, Nissl and Alzheimer. Farrar was hand-picked by Prof. Charles Clarke, the University's inaugural head of Psychiatry, to succeed him in both that chair and as the first Director of the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital (TPH) opening in 1925. Farrar served in those capacities until 1947, setting the stage fo the TPH to continue as the Department's clinical, teaching, research and administrative nexus until succeeded in 1966 by the Clarke Institute." Dr. Farrar also served as the editor of the American Journal of Psychiatry. (TPH: History and Memories of Toronto Psychiatric Hospital by Edward Shorter). $225 CAD