A Further Inquiry Concerning Constitutional Irritation, and the Pathology of the Nervous System

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  • London: G. Woodfall for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1835
By TRAVERS, Benjamin
London: G. Woodfall for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1835. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, edges gilt. Ownership inscription of John Davis on the title. First edition. Part I covers inflammation and localized ailments; Part II explores the nervous system and its disorders. This work follows his 1826 An inquiry concerning that disturbed state of the vital functions usually denominated constitutional irritation.

Travers (1783-1858) was an apprentice to Sir Astley Cooper, with whom he wrote Surgical essays published in 1818-1819. A vascular and ophthalmic surgeon at St. Thomas’ in London, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1813 and ultimately acquired much of Cooper’s practice. He was “the first hospital surgeon in England to devote himself to the surgery of the eye.”

DNB, XIX, pp. 1085-1086; see Heirs of Hippocrates, 1227.

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A Further Inquiry Concerning Constitutional Irritation, and the Pathology of the Nervous System

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TRAVERS, Benjamin

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G. Woodfall for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green: London

Date

1835

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FIRST EDITION


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