BRIGHT, Richard (1789-1859). Reports of Medical Cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy, London: by Richard Taylor for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827, 4°, volume I only, FIRST EDITION, 16 hand-coloured aquatint plates by William Say after Frederick Richard Say numbered 1-15 (each plate re-hinged on cloth guard and with library stamp on verso, plate 1 slightly soiled, small stain in blank area of plate 6, several other plates with light marginal soiling, the 16ll. of unpaginated explanatory text slightly tattered at outer margin, half title lightly soiled and creased, with some damage to upper inner corner and repair at inner margin, title thumb soiled, with perforation mark and de-accessesion stamp on verso, accession number in black ink at foot of dedication leaf, library stamp affecting text on p. 222), later morocco-backed marbled boards (rubbed, spine worn at head and foot), t.e.g., fore-edge uncut. [GM 2285; Grolier Medicine 60a; Lilly p. 183; Norman 341; Osler 1340; Waller 1460; Wellcome II, p. 239]

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BRIGHT, Richard (1789-1859). Reports of Medical Cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy, London: by Richard Taylor for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827, 4°, volume I only, FIRST EDITION, 16 hand-coloured aquatint plates by William Say after Frederick Richard Say numbered 1-15 (each plate re-hinged on cloth guard and with library stamp on verso, plate 1 slightly soiled, small stain in blank area of plate 6, several other plates with light marginal soiling, the 16ll. of unpaginated explanatory text slightly tattered at outer margin, half title lightly soiled and creased, with some damage to upper inner corner and repair at inner margin, title thumb soiled, with perforation mark and de-accessesion stamp on verso, accession number in black ink at foot of dedication leaf, library stamp affecting text on p. 222), later morocco-backed marbled boards (rubbed, spine worn at head and foot), t.e.g., fore-edge uncut. [GM 2285; Grolier Medicine 60a; Lilly p. 183; Norman 341; Osler 1340; Waller 1460; Wellcome II, p. 239]

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The first volume of Bright's Reports of Medical Cases contains detailed case reports of kidney disease, described in Heirs of Hippocrates as "models of clarity and conciseness" giving "ample evidence of Bright's skill as a clinician. The sixteen coloured lithographed plates are among the finest medical illustrations." In the first volume, Bright made the historic differentiation between renal and cardiac dropsy, and established the symptomatology of chronic nonsuppurative nephritis, the 'Bright's disease' that has immortalized his name." The second volume, published in 1831, was devoted to neuropathology.

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