FIRST EDITION. 8 vo. Orig. cloth boards. (4), 444 pp. PRESENTATION COPY to Benjamin Silliman, Sr. with Jackson's holograph inscription. Silliman (1779-1864), the illustrious Yale chemist, geologist, and educator was, in the medical field, instrumental in the establishment of Yale Medical School (opened 1813). Slight edge wear to spine, minor spotty foxing; a very good copy. James Jackson (1777-1867), "the first chairman of clinical medicine at Harvard and, while still a medical student, an ardent supporter of the newly developed smallpox vaccination, played an important role in the development of medical care and medical education in Massachusetts. Jackson studied under Sir Astley Paston Cooper at Guy's Hospital in London where he formed a lasting friendship with another American student, John Collins Warren. Together they cooperated in a number of professional enterprises including the pharmacopoeia of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the founding of the Medical Improvement Society of Boston." (Heirs of Hippocrates, p.420). James Jackson, Jr. (1810-34) died shortly after returning from his studies in Paris one month after receiving his medical degree. The majority of the present book consists of the cases from his common-place book while in residence in Paris under Louis with comments by Jackson, Sr. and H.I. Bowditch. In his brief career, Jackson, Jr. called attention to the importance of the prolonged expiratory sound in the diagnosis of incipient pulmonary tuberculosis; he made astute observations about the clinical features and pathology of cholera during a Paris epidemic; he discovered that there was a familial tendency in emphysema; and he played a role in the founding of the Societe Medicale d'Observation de Paris. Dict. Amer. Med. Biog. I.386. Wellcome III.336. Osler 3060. Cushing J57. Blocker Coll., p.207. Cordasco 30-0506.

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Title: A memoir of James Jackson, Jr., M.D. with extracts from his letters to his father; and medical cases, collected by Him
Publisher: Boston: I.R. Butts, 1835
Publication Date: 1835
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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