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WARREN, JOHN C. A Letter to the Hon. Isaac Parker, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Massachusetts, Containing Remarks on the Dislocation of the Hip Joint, Occasioned by the Publication of a Trial which Took Place at Machias, in the State of Maine, June, 1824. With an Appendix of Documents from the Trial Necessary to Illustrate the History of the Case. Cambridge, [Mass.]: Hilliard and Metcalf, 1826. 1st ed. 8vo. 8, 142, [3] pp. Contemp. calf backed marbled boards (C. Stimpson, Jun., Bookbinder). Bookplate removed. $425.00
Shoemaker 27559. One of the great physicians of the first half of the 19th century in America, the outstanding surgeon of the period, and a leading figure in the development of medical uses for anaesthesia.
Evidently some copies of the book were sold without the three leaves at the end containing Josiah Coffin's first deposition in the case of a physician's malpractice.