TOYNBEE, Joseph (1815-1866). The Diseases of the Ear. Their nature, diagnosis and treatment. London: John Churchill, 1860. 8o. Numerous text diagrams. 32 pp. publisher's catalogue dated February 1860 bound in at rear. Original black blind-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Provenance: Medico-Chirurgical Society of Aberdeen (bookplate, recording bequest by James Steel, 1865). FIRST EDITION OF THE FOUNDATION OF AURAL PATHOLOGY. "Toynbee's chief work placed otology and aural surgery on a firm basis of pathology. It contains statistical tables and accounts of the relationship between post-mortem appearances of the temporal bone and symptoms suffered during life" (Norman). Toynbee made over 2,000 dissections of the ear. Garrison-Morton 3373; Heirs of Hippocrates 1820 (US edition); Norman 2090. -- A Descriptive Catalogue of Preparations Illustrative of the Diseases of the Ear in the Museum of Joseph Toynbee, F.R.S.. London: John Churchill, 1857. 8o. Original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine and front cover (spine detached, front cover nearly detached). Provenance: presentation inscription from the author on half-title: "To the Library of the College of Physicians & Surgeons New York from the author/". FIRST EDITION. "Prior to the year 1800, thousands of dissections of nearly all the organs of the body had been made, but scarcely a single dissection of a diseased ear had been recorded. Toynbee set out to remedy this lack of appreciation of the importance of aural pathology" (Stevenson-Guthrie, History of otolaryngology, Edinburgh, 1949). Norman 2089. (2)