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MACEWEN, William (1848-1924). Pyogenic Infective Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Cord. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1893.
8o (222 x 150 mm). Numerous plates and illustrations in text. Original cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, uncut (spine slightly cocked).
[With:]
MACEWEN. Atlas of Head Sections. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1893.
4o (279 x 225 mm). 53 plates, each with duplicate key plate in outline (some minor dampstaining along gutter not affecting image). Later library cloth, gilt-lettered on spine.
FIRST EDITIONS of Macewen's textbook on neurosurgery together with the much rarer atlas published to supplement it. Cushing called Macewen "the chief pioneer in cranio-cerebral surgery (McHenry, Garrison's History of Neurology, p. 504). The separately published atlas is rarely found together with Macewen's text. In his appendix (1920) to Choulant's work, Garrison complained that "as in all frozen sections, the saw has destroyed or obscured many of the finer details." From our viewpoint more than 80 years later Garrison's remark is beside the point; the 53 plates, arranged in seven sections, including one coronal and one traverse from a child, have a strange beauty that is difficult to define. Choulant-Frank p. 409; Garrison-Morton 4872, 431; Walker, History of Neurological Surgery (1951) p. 179. (2)
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[With:]
MACEWEN. Atlas of Head Sections. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1893.
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FIRST EDITIONS of Macewen's textbook on neurosurgery together with the much rarer atlas published to supplement it. Cushing called Macewen "the chief pioneer in cranio-cerebral surgery (McHenry, Garrison's History of Neurology, p. 504). The separately published atlas is rarely found together with Macewen's text. In his appendix (1920) to Choulant's work, Garrison complained that "as in all frozen sections, the saw has destroyed or obscured many of the finer details." From our viewpoint more than 80 years later Garrison's remark is beside the point; the 53 plates, arranged in seven sections, including one coronal and one traverse from a child, have a strange beauty that is difficult to define. Choulant-Frank p. 409; Garrison-Morton 4872, 431; Walker, History of Neurological Surgery (1951) p. 179. (2)