Dunglison 1874 Medical Lexicon, Dictionary of Medical Science

Dunglison, Robley. Medical Lexicon. A Dictionary of Medical Science: containing A Concise Explanation of the various Subjects and Terms of Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Hygiene, Therapeutics, Medical Chemistry, Pharmacology, Pharmacy, Surgery, Obstetrics, Medical Jurisprudence, and Dentistry; Notices of Climate, and of Mineral Waters; Formulae for Officinal, Empirical, and Dietetic Preparations; with the Accentuation and Etymology of the Terms, and the French and other Synonyms. Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1874. A New Edition, Enlarged and thoroughly Revised. [10798] Full brown sheep with black leather title label in gilt, 9 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches, joints fine, light scuffing and an old stain near the top of the binding, tight. viii, 1131 pages, 32 pp. publisher's catalogue of medical books. Pages generally clean, many have a thin tidemark in the top margin; a much better-than-average copy, and some 300 pages larger than earlier editions. Good. Hardcover. "The object of the author, from the outset, has not been to make the work a mere lexicon or dictionary of terms, but to afford under each word a condensed view of its various medical relations, and thus to render the work and entire epitome of the existing condition of medical science." - Publisher. Robley Dunglison (1798-1869), b. Keswick, England; d. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Duglison has been called the "Father of American Medicine," serving as the first full-time professor of medicine in the United States at the University of Virginia from 1824 to 1833. He was the personal physician to Presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe, and the attendant physician at the death of Andrew Jackson. In 1836 he accepted the position created for him as Professor of Institutes of Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. He is credited with many discoveries in the medical fields.