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HUNTER, John. A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation, and Gun-shot Wounds, London: for George Nicol, 1794. 4° (270 x 215mm.), engraved portrait frontispiece by W. Sharp after Sir Joshua Reynolds, 9 engraved plates by William Skelton (occasional spotting and light off-setting), contemporary mottled calf (worn, covers detatched but intact). FIRST EDITION.
"Hunter died whilst the work was in progress, and Sir Everard Home, Hunter's pupil, brother-in-law and executor, finished the work and added the biography. Whilst serving with the army at Belle Isle during the Seven Years' War Hunter collected the material for his epoch-making book on inflammation and gunshot wounds. His studies on inflammation in particular are fundamental for pathology" (Garrison & Morton 2283); Waller 4997; Wellcome III, 317; Norman 1122.
"Hunter died whilst the work was in progress, and Sir Everard Home, Hunter's pupil, brother-in-law and executor, finished the work and added the biography. Whilst serving with the army at Belle Isle during the Seven Years' War Hunter collected the material for his epoch-making book on inflammation and gunshot wounds. His studies on inflammation in particular are fundamental for pathology" (Garrison & Morton 2283); Waller 4997; Wellcome III, 317; Norman 1122.