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xvi, [17]-206 pp. Original cloth. D. H. Storer stamped in gilt on front cover (see photo). Gilt spine lettering is dull (see photo). Near Fine. First Edition. INSCRIBED BY HORACE GREEN: "Dr. Storer/ With the respects of the/ Author" (see photo). See Garrison-Morton 3261 for Horace Green's earlier book "A Treatise on Diseases of the Air Passages" (1846): "Green was the 'father of laryngology' in America, and . . . [author of] the first American treatise in otorhinolaryngology. He was the first successfully to introduce medicaments into the larynx, trachea, and bronchi for local treatment, using a probang, a curved instrument of whalebone 25 cm. long tipped with a tiny sponge. His claims in this connexion were the subject of bitter controversy in the U.S.A. It is possible that he somewhat exaggerated the efficacy of the methods he used and advocated." The recipient of this copy, "D. H. Storer", was David Humphreys Storer. "He graduated from Bowdoin in 1822 and received the degree of M.D. from the Harvard Medical School in 1825. After an apprenticeship as house student in the office of Dr. John C. Warren, he soon obtained an excellent practice, paying especial attention to obstetrics, and gradually rose to be one of the most highly respected physicians of Boston. At an early time he took great interest in teaching and in 1837 with the cooperation of Drs. Edward Reynolds, Jacob Bigelow and Oliver Wendell Holmes, he was active in the establishment of the Tremont Street Medical School, an institution founded largely as a protest against the formal and inefficient instruction of the Harvard Medical School of those days, which offered a school year of only four months. As a result of the great success of the Tremont Street School before long Harvard found itself forced to take it over bodily, and its corps of teachers became highly honored Harvard professors. Dr. Storer accepted the chair of obstetrics and medical jurisprudence, which he held from 1854 to 1868 and he also served as dean from 1855 to 1864. As a teacher he was one of the best that the medical school has ever had, not at all of the modern scientific type, but the teacher who possesses the secret of being able to communicate his own intense enthusiasm to his students. As dean he felt very strongly his responsibility for his charges and as a result his home was the rendezvous of the many students who in those days flocked to Harvard from distant places. In addition to the claims of a very large general and obstetrical practice and of the position of visiting physician to the Massachusetts General Hospital (1849-1858), and to the Boston Lying-in Hospital (1854-1868), and to the many demands made upon his time by the medical school, Dr. Storer was an ardent and very active naturalist. Joining the Boston Society of Natural History at an early age, he soon became a constant contributor to its proceedings and under its auspices published in 1846 "A Synopsis of the Fishes of North America" and in 1867 "A History of the Fishes of Massachusetts" . . . . His fine collection of shells he left by will to Bowdoin College. He contributed over 125 papers to medical literature, several being in book form" (Kelly & Burrage, American Medical Biographies, pp. 1112-13). Seller Inventory # 15370
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