The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of Practitioners and Students of Medicine

First edition, first printing with first issue text "Georgias" misspelled on vi. First state rear ads dated November, 1891. Rebound in recent tan calf with label to spine, gilt lettering; white endpapers. Lacking prelims up to the title page. Contents Very Good+ and unmarked, small chips to top and bottom corner of title page. A rare example of the true first edition of Osler's very influential medical textbook, the best of its time. "One of the most influential textbooks of general medicine ever written. The chapters describe specific diseases by systems- an innovation now generally followed- and the work's elevated literary style, coupled with its vast store of medical knowledge, brought something new to the medical textbook genre. Writing at the end of a revolutionary period in medicine, Osler was able to fill a widely felt need by incorporating into his textbook the tremendous advances, particularly in microbiology, that had forever altered the face of medicine" (Hook and Norman, 1612). Garrison-Morton 2231; Golden & Roland 1375; Norman 2231; Osler 3543. …