first edition
1838 · Philadelphia:
by EVANSON, Richard Tonson (1799?-1871); Henry MAUNSELL (1806-1879).
Philadelphia:: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1838., 1838. 23 cm. 8vo. 300 pp. Index. Modern brown gilt-stamped cloth, new endleaves. Foxed. Very good copy. First American edition. Richard T. Evanson was Professor of Medicine and Henry Maunsell was Professor of Midwifery, both at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin. The work discusses, as given in the 12 chapter titles: Infant Structure and Constitution, the Management and Physical Education of Children, Peculiarities of Disease, Infantile Therapeutics, Accidents and Diseases occurring at birth or shortly afterwards, Diseases of the Digestive Organs, Diseases of the Respiratory Organs, Eruptive Fevers, Vaccination, Constitutional Diseases, and Diseases of the Cerebral System.
(Inventory #: M14954)