On the Origin and Progress of Renal Surgery: with special reference to stone in the kidney and ureter . . . together with a critical examination of subparietal injuries of the ureter.

8vo. viii, 288, [8] pp. 29 figs., 11 tables, index. Original full blind- and gilt-stamped blue cloth. Very good+. MORRIS' OWN COPY. First edition of Morris' pioneering work on nephrolithotomy and his work on 267 cases from 1880-1898. The copy is annotated (ink, carbon pencil, red or blue pencil) to show corrigenda (pages 12, 22, 30-31, 35, 43, 61, 160-161, 170 (cut sheet mounted), 173, 175, 177, 178-179 (heavy, blue pencil), 181, 185, 197, 199, 232-233, 234, 247 [noting that the patient died, but of acute general tuberculosis], 263, 265, 271, 273, 279, 281, 282-283). / "Closely associated with the introduction of laparotomy, planned renal surgery was a child of the second half of the 19th Century along with its siblings, anaesthesia and antisepsis. Sir Henry Morris performed the first recorded nephrolithotomy on an undilated kidney. Morris was a pioneer not only of early renal surgery but also the conservative surgery of the kidney which is now so much in vogue and which we erroneously believe is a modern idea." - Jonathan Charles Goddard, "Sir Henry Morris and the first nephrolithotomy," Urology News, vol. 22, no. 2, Jan.-Feb. 2018. / Sir Henry Morris, 1st Baronet, FRCS, was a British medical doctor and surgeon, president of the Royal Society of Medicine. / This copy of Morris's classic work is both with annotations and with some mounted manuscript notes or letters (some loosely laid in). These include: [1] Autograph letter [mounted, facing half-title] from Prof. Dr. James Israel, Berlin, 1900, ". . . if you would do me the favor and let me know the number of nephrolithotomies you performed, and also the death rate. I should like you to except from this statistic the cases of nephrolithotomy in Pyonephrosis with stone, or rather to mention the operations in kidneys with proportionately little changed Parenchyma." - James Israel. / [2] Mounted to front pastedown: typed, folded sheet: showing notes collected from classic physicians on the kidney, including Kappadocier Aretaeus, Avicenna, Jean de Troyes (Rayer), Girolamo Cardano, Francois Rousset, Schenck von Grafenberg, Riolan, Fabry von Hilden, Zambeccari, Blankaart. Could be typed for the author. / [3] Mounted to front pastedown: ink manuscript leaf [from author?] "The early cases of nephrolithotomy are reported in Amer. Journ. Med. Sciences, Jan. 1873, vol. 65, p. 278. 8 cases are listed. / [4] Mounted to free front endleaf: ink manuscript, same hand (author's): "Simon[,] Gustave S. (of Heidelberg) was born at Darmstadt 30 May, 1824 [German surgeon] - id his first nephrolithotomy 2nd Aug. 1869 published the report of this case . . . He gave up work because of ill health . . ." / [5] Typed Letter Signed from C. Symonds, to Sir Henry Morris, Cavendish Square, London, 6th December 1913. Proposing an honorary membership [F.R.C.S.] to Mr. F.G. [Frederick George] Larkin [to the Royal College of Surgeons of England), who read a paper to Guy's Hospital in 1869 on kidney removal. Larkin's (1847-1927) paper was called, "Nephrotomy and Excision of the Kidney". Larkin was elected in 1915. / [6-7] [laid in] 3 ink manuscript leaves, written on the recto side only, titled "Cramer's Case I Pyonephrosis" and "Cramer's Case II Pyonephrosis". / [8] Autograph patient letter, from Emilie O. Rowe, Weymouth, 3 pages, « My dear sir" 1901. "Perhaps you will remember that 5 years ago [1896] you operated on both my kidneys with great success. . ." The patient record is noted on page 250 of this volume [initials of the patient E.R.]. / [9] Autograph letter from Hugh Fraser, Herts., a medical colleague, Jan. 4, 1902, "I do not know if you remember operating upon a Mrs -- Brigg, sometime about the year 1893 or 1894 . . . I understand that the diagnosis before the operation was renal calculus, but on operating, you discovered . . . Brigg has been since then a patient of mine . . . that is to say, she has been in perfect health." This case possibly referenced in Table II, p. 174 [Mrs. B.]. / [10-11] Two c.…