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20 unnumbered leaves, 356 pages : engr. t.page, woodcuts, illustrations ; (4to)

14 unnumbered leaves, 298 pages, 10 unnumbered pages : woodcut illustrations & portrait ; (8vo)

Illustration shows the excision of a cancerous growth from a woman's breast, an operation which Hanaoka Seishu first carried out in 1804 using general anasthetic

Kamata Keishu, a pupil of the renowned surgeon Hanaoka Seishu (1760 - 1835),…

xxiv, 616 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

4 volumes, color plates : add. engr. t.ps. ; (folio)

Text, vols. i-ii, and plates, vols. i-ii. The later have add. engr. titles 'Trattato completo dell'anatomia, etc.'
Copy 1 Vol. 1 Note: Text, v. 1.
Copy 1 Vol. 2 Note: Text, v. 2.
Copy 1 Vol.…

1 photomechanical reproduction : lithograph, printed in colour ; image 26.9 x 42.7 cm

xvii, 241 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits, facsimiles, folded genealogical tables ; 22 cm

Copy 1 Note: Author's presentation copy to Sir Henry Dale

2 volumes (xliii, 586; vii, 603 pages; 103 pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm

Includes index in v. 2
Bibliography of William S. Halsted: v. 2, p. 535-563

Black and white photograph of a woman two years after amputation of the left breast and removal of the axillary glands for cancer. There is no local recurrence, and the movements of the left arm are free. There was, however, metastatic growth in the…