JACKSON, John Bernard Swett (1806-1879). A Descriptive Catalogue of the Anatomical Museum of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement. Boston: William D. Ticknor, 1847.

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JACKSON, John Bernard Swett (1806-1879). A Descriptive Catalogue of the Anatomical Museum of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement. Boston: William D. Ticknor, 1847.

8o (231 x 146 mm). 10 engraved plates. Original blind-stamped cloth. gilt-lettered on spine (some chipping at spine ends, joints starting, a few minor stains on front cover). Provenance: Harvard Medical School (book label).

FIRST EDITION. A collector of pathological specimens and an expert on their arrangement and display, Jackson was curator of the Anatomical Museum at Harvard.

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JACKSON. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Warren Anatomical Museum. Boston: A. Williams, 1870.

8o (218 x 145 mm). Mounted photographic frontispiece. (Frontispiece and title-page detached, some browning to title-page.) Original cloth, gilt-stamped on spine.

FIRST EDITION with mounted photographic frontispiece consisting of four views of the skull of Phineas Gage, who survived for 12 years after an explosion sent a 43 inch long, 13 pound iron bar through his skull. Beecher & Altschule, Medicine at Harvard, pp. 79-80, 486-87; Long, History of American Pathology 106-08, 67-69. (2)

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