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WARREN, John Collins (1778-1856). Anatomical Description of the Arteries of the Human Body. Boston: Thomas B. Wait, 1813.
8o (237 x 145 mm). 15 hand-colored woodcut plates by Josiah Foster Flagg after the illustrations in Haller's Icones anatomicae. Contemporary boards, uncut (rebacked).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with the text translated from Haller's Icones Anatomicae ([1743]-56), substantially revised by Warren, and with woodcuts engraved by Josiah Foster Flagg (1788-1853), a dentist and noted American anatomical illustrator. The illustrations were unusually elaborate for an American medical book of this date, and reflect the longevity and adaptability of Haller's images, which remained unsurpassed over fifty years after their original publication. This is also ONE OF THE EARLIEST AMERICAN MEDICAL BOOKS WITH HAND-COLORED PLATES. The author/editor, one of the founders of Harvard Medical School, is most famous for having performed the first surgical operation under ether anesthesia on October 16, 1846, after which he stated to his audience, "Gentlemen, this is no humbug." See Garrison-Morton 397.
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FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with the text translated from Haller's Icones Anatomicae ([1743]-56), substantially revised by Warren, and with woodcuts engraved by Josiah Foster Flagg (1788-1853), a dentist and noted American anatomical illustrator. The illustrations were unusually elaborate for an American medical book of this date, and reflect the longevity and adaptability of Haller's images, which remained unsurpassed over fifty years after their original publication. This is also ONE OF THE EARLIEST AMERICAN MEDICAL BOOKS WITH HAND-COLORED PLATES. The author/editor, one of the founders of Harvard Medical School, is most famous for having performed the first surgical operation under ether anesthesia on October 16, 1846, after which he stated to his audience, "Gentlemen, this is no humbug." See Garrison-Morton 397.