Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Physic: Volume I

Volume I of a two volume set of this medical work by Sir Thomas Watson, known for the diagnosis of Watson's water hammer pulse. The fifth edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. A comprehensive Victorian-era medical work written by Sir Thomas Watson (1792-1882), a British physician best remembered for describing the water hammer pulse in patients with aortic insufficiency. This work is a collection of lectures on different illnesses and conditions, including fever, haemorrhages, cancer, tetanus, and epilepsy. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally with shelf wear and light marks to the boards and spine. Hinges are strained but holding firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for the odd spot to the first and last few pages. Good.