HUNTER, John (1728-1793). A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation and Gun-Shot Wounds ... to which is prefixed, A short account of the author's life, by his brother-in-law, Everard Home, London: by John Richardson for George Nicol, 1794, 4°, FIRST EDITION, 9 engraved plates by William Skelton (lacking the portrait frontispiece, title and final leaf, 4D4, detached, light spotting to plates, some browning and spotting of text, particularly quires N to U4, old ink splashes on h3v, h4r and 3N3r, 2I1v slightly soiled), later blue half calf over mottled boards (covers detached). [Blake p. 226; GM 2283; Grolier Medicine 52; Norman 1122; Waller 4997; Wellcome III, p. 317] Provenance: Henry W. Porter, February 1 1845, New York (inscription on title); JCL

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HUNTER, John (1728-1793). A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation and Gun-Shot Wounds ... to which is prefixed, A short account of the author's life, by his brother-in-law, Everard Home, London: by John Richardson for George Nicol, 1794, 4°, FIRST EDITION, 9 engraved plates by William Skelton (lacking the portrait frontispiece, title and final leaf, 4D4, detached, light spotting to plates, some browning and spotting of text, particularly quires N to U⁴, old ink splashes on h3v, h4r and 3N3r, 2I1v slightly soiled), later blue half calf over mottled boards (covers detached). [Blake p. 226; GM 2283; Grolier Medicine 52; Norman 1122; Waller 4997; Wellcome III, p. 317] Provenance: Henry W. Porter, February 1 1845, New York (inscription on title); JCL

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"It was while serving with the army at Belle Isle during the Seven Years' War that Hunter collected the material for his epoch-making book on inflammation and gunshot wounds. His studies on inflammation in particular are fundamental for pathology" [GM]

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