A lecture, on the connexion and reciprocal influence, between the brain and stomach; delivered before the American Institute of Instruction, at Providence, 1840

Parsons, Usher

Published by B. Cranston & Co. & Lea, Providence, 1841

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8vo, pp. 16; original brown printed wrappers; front wrap nearly separated, light foxing. A surgeon in the U.S. Navy who brilliantly served the sick and wounded under Oliver Hazard Perry at the Battle of Lake Erie, he was thus sprung into great prominence for his surgical work. He was later professor of anatomy and surgery at Brown University, and married Mary Jackson Holmes, making him the brother-in-law of Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Boston physician, poet and essayist. Parsons was a prolific writer, with 56 titles to his credit. His biographer, Spalding, says "it would be difficult to find a man of greater merit in American medicine, for he gave of his entire mind for over fifty years to the advance of medical science." American Imprints 4037; Cordasco 40-1050. Seller Inventory # 54242

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Title: A lecture, on the connexion and reciprocal ...

Publisher: B. Cranston & Co. & Lea, Providence

Publication Date: 1841

Binding: Soft cover