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CARSWELL, Robert (1793-1857). Pathological Anatomy. Illustrations of the Elementary Forms of Diseases. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman for the author, 1838.
2o (366 x 268 mm). 48 hand-colored lithographed plates after Carswell. Contemporary cloth (rebacked and corners renewed with calf.) Provenance: Boston Athenaeum (ink stamp on title).
FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. Carswell's atlas, which he illustrated himself, is one of the most beautiful atlases of pathology. Regarding Carswell's work, Sir William Osler, who began his career as a pathologist, had this to say: "Carswell... studied morbid anatomy in Paris under Louis. He was commissioned by University College, London, to prepare a collection of pathological drawings, and in about three years (1828-31) he completed a series of 2,000 water-colour drawings of diseased structures, which is still preserved at the College, where he was appointed professor of anatomy. The plates for his great work on pathological anatomy were furnished from his own drawings and put upon the stone by himself. These illustrations have, for artistic merit and for fidelity, never been surpassed, while the matter represents the highest point which the science of morbid anatomy had reached before the introduction of the microscope" (Osler, Bibliotheca Osleriana, 2250). Garrison-Morton 2291; Goldschmid 156; Heirs of Hippocrates 1501; Norman 408; Osler 2250; Wellcome II p.306. Not in Waller or Cushing.
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FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. Carswell's atlas, which he illustrated himself, is one of the most beautiful atlases of pathology. Regarding Carswell's work, Sir William Osler, who began his career as a pathologist, had this to say: "Carswell... studied morbid anatomy in Paris under Louis. He was commissioned by University College, London, to prepare a collection of pathological drawings, and in about three years (1828-31) he completed a series of 2,000 water-colour drawings of diseased structures, which is still preserved at the College, where he was appointed professor of anatomy. The plates for his great work on pathological anatomy were furnished from his own drawings and put upon the stone by himself. These illustrations have, for artistic merit and for fidelity, never been surpassed, while the matter represents the highest point which the science of morbid anatomy had reached before the introduction of the microscope" (Osler, Bibliotheca Osleriana, 2250). Garrison-Morton 2291; Goldschmid 156; Heirs of Hippocrates 1501; Norman 408; Osler 2250; Wellcome II p.306. Not in Waller or Cushing.