Premium pages left without account:

Auction archive: Lot number 1204

MITCHELL, Silas Weir (1829-1914); George Read MOREHOUSE (1829-1905); and William William KEEN (1837-1932). Gunshot Wounds and Other Injuries of Nerves . Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1864.

Auction 29.10.1998
29 Oct 1998
Estimate
US$1,500 - US$2,000
Price realised:
US$3,680
Auction archive: Lot number 1204

MITCHELL, Silas Weir (1829-1914); George Read MOREHOUSE (1829-1905); and William William KEEN (1837-1932). Gunshot Wounds and Other Injuries of Nerves . Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1864.

Auction 29.10.1998
29 Oct 1998
Estimate
US$1,500 - US$2,000
Price realised:
US$3,680
Beschreibung:

MITCHELL, Silas Weir (1829-1914); George Read MOREHOUSE (1829-1905); and William William KEEN (1837-1932). Gunshot Wounds and Other Injuries of Nerves . Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1864. 8 o (195 x 122 mm). (Faint dampstain on bottom margin of several leaves, crease in title-page.) Modern plain light blue wrappers. FIRST EDITION "OF THE FIRST EXHAUSTIVE STUDY OF TRAUMATIC NERVE INJURIES", written with George Read Morehouse and William Williams Keen. "Mitchell is considered a founder of American neurology, and his collaborator William Keen has been described as one of America's first neurosurgeons...Mitchell served as a contract surgeon during the American Civil War, during which he was made head of the 400-bed Turner's Lane Hospital for nervous diseases in Philadelphia...The war offered the three men an unparalleled opportunity to study all types of nerve lesions -- a hitherto neglected field...the present work... represents the first exhaustive study of traumatic nerve injuries. Its 120 case histories included a description of the severe burning pain that Mitchell later named 'causalgia,' studies of post-traumatic epilepsy, and an account of the effects of injury to the superior cervical sympathetic ganglion ('Horner's syndrone') that antedated Johann Friedrich Horner's description by five years" (Norman). RARE. BAL 14062; Garrison-Morton 2167; Norman 1519.

Auction archive: Lot number 1204
Auction:
Datum:
29 Oct 1998
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Beschreibung:

MITCHELL, Silas Weir (1829-1914); George Read MOREHOUSE (1829-1905); and William William KEEN (1837-1932). Gunshot Wounds and Other Injuries of Nerves . Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1864. 8 o (195 x 122 mm). (Faint dampstain on bottom margin of several leaves, crease in title-page.) Modern plain light blue wrappers. FIRST EDITION "OF THE FIRST EXHAUSTIVE STUDY OF TRAUMATIC NERVE INJURIES", written with George Read Morehouse and William Williams Keen. "Mitchell is considered a founder of American neurology, and his collaborator William Keen has been described as one of America's first neurosurgeons...Mitchell served as a contract surgeon during the American Civil War, during which he was made head of the 400-bed Turner's Lane Hospital for nervous diseases in Philadelphia...The war offered the three men an unparalleled opportunity to study all types of nerve lesions -- a hitherto neglected field...the present work... represents the first exhaustive study of traumatic nerve injuries. Its 120 case histories included a description of the severe burning pain that Mitchell later named 'causalgia,' studies of post-traumatic epilepsy, and an account of the effects of injury to the superior cervical sympathetic ganglion ('Horner's syndrone') that antedated Johann Friedrich Horner's description by five years" (Norman). RARE. BAL 14062; Garrison-Morton 2167; Norman 1519.

Auction archive: Lot number 1204
Auction:
Datum:
29 Oct 1998
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Try LotSearch

Try LotSearch and its premium features for 7 days - without any costs!

  • Search lots and bid
  • Price database and artist analysis
  • Alerts for your searches
Create an alert now!

Be notified automatically about new items in upcoming auctions.

Create an alert