Library of Practical Medicine Published By Order of the Massachusetts Medical Society Containing Boylston Prize Dissertations for 1836

From an academic library with usual stamps and labels. viii, [3], 12-288 pp. Contains three dissertations. "Dissertations on the Question How Far Are The External Means of Exploring the Condition of the Internal Organs to be Considered Useful and Important in Medical Practice? For White Premiums Were Adjudged by the Boylston Medical Committee of Harvard University 1836. Dr Bell's Dissertation on "Exploration of the Abdomen, Percussion Auscultation, Exploration of the Diseases of the Lungs and Tubercular Phthisis". Dr Haxoll's Dissertation "Abdominal Diseases Thphoid or Typhus Fever Diseases of the Heart". Dr Holmes' Dissertation "General Considerations on Direct Exploration, Disease of the Pleura, Diseases of the Circulating System, Diseases of the Valves of the Heart, Affections of the Abdomen, Diseases of the Brain". Binding is black covered boards with gilt titling to spine. Some sporadic foxing but prelims and title page are very foxed.