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BEARDSLEY, Hezekiah (1748-1790). "Case of a schirrous in the pylorus of an infant." In: Cases and Observations; by the Medical Society of New-Haven County, in the State of Connecticut. New-Haven: J. Meigs, 1788.
8o (181 x 106 mm). (Some margins shaved close, some light browning to text.) Modern calf antique; cloth slipcase. Provenance: Royal Society of Edinburgh (cropped inscription on title-page: "To the Royal Medical Soc[iety] Edinb[urgh]").
FIRST PRINTING OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO PEDIATRICS. Beardsley's account was "the first American case report on congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis" (Garrison-Morton). This was the only volume published of Cases and observations by the Medial Society of New Haven County, the first American medical periodical. Austin 1258; Garrison-Morton 3426; Norman 149.
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FIRST PRINTING OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO PEDIATRICS. Beardsley's account was "the first American case report on congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis" (Garrison-Morton). This was the only volume published of Cases and observations by the Medial Society of New Haven County, the first American medical periodical. Austin 1258; Garrison-Morton 3426; Norman 149.