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MACEWEN, Sir William (1848-1924). Atlas of Head Sections. Fifty-three Engraved Copperplates of Frozen Sections of the Head, and Fifty-three key Plates with Descriptive Texts. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1893.
4o. 53 plates and key plates. Original green cloth. Provenance: A. Grey Turner (ink inscription dated 1939 on front free endpaper).
FIRST EDITION of the atlas meant to accompany Pyogenic Infectifve Diseases of the Brain (see below). A landmark contribution to neurosurgery in which Macewen for the first time demonstrated etiology, pathology and successful treatment of middle ear and mastoid infections which often led to temporal lobe brain abscess in this period. Blocker, p. 252; Garrison-Morton 431.
[With:] MACEWEN. Pyogenic Infective Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Cord. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1893. 8o. Plates. Original green cloth (lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION. (2)
4o. 53 plates and key plates. Original green cloth. Provenance: A. Grey Turner (ink inscription dated 1939 on front free endpaper).
FIRST EDITION of the atlas meant to accompany Pyogenic Infectifve Diseases of the Brain (see below). A landmark contribution to neurosurgery in which Macewen for the first time demonstrated etiology, pathology and successful treatment of middle ear and mastoid infections which often led to temporal lobe brain abscess in this period. Blocker, p. 252; Garrison-Morton 431.
[With:] MACEWEN. Pyogenic Infective Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Cord. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1893. 8o. Plates. Original green cloth (lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION. (2)