John W. Ogle; Timothy Holmes — St. George&Apos;S Hospital Reports

London, John Churchill and Sons , 1866. First edition. Cloth. St. George's Hospital illustrated reports for the year 1866, a bright copy of this very scarce volume. The first edition of this work. A very scarce volume. St. George's Hospital reports for 1866, first volume of a run of ten reports, ceasing in 1879. Rarely seen on the market. Containing practical Reports and Communications concerning medicine and surgeries, written by the medical staff of the hospital and lecturers at the School of Medicine. With a history of the hospital by W. E. Page, senior physician at the hospital.Articles discuss diseases and medical issues such as meningocele, the Typhus epidemic of 1864-5, rheumatic iritis, on amputation of the hip joint, and much more.Edited by John W. Ogle and Timothy Holmes. With a frontispiece and fifteen further illustrations both in text and in full page, one in colour. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear, spine and boards only lightly bumped and chipped to extremities, few minor marks to rear board. 'The Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society' stamp to title page. Internally, firmly bound. Minor creasing to lower right corner title page. Pages bright and clean with numerous unopened leaves. Illustrated both in text and with full page plates with a frontispiece and fifteen illustrations, one in colour. Collated, complete. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .