A treatise on neuralgic diseases

Teale, Thomas Pridgin (1800-1867). A treatise on neuralgic diseases, dependent upon irritation of the spinal marrow and ganglia of the sympathetic nerve. iv, 120pp. Philadelphia: E. L. Carey and A. Hart, 1830. 236 x 148 mm. Original quarter cloth, boards, front cover nearly detached, front endpaper detached, upper corner of front cover chipped, light soiling. Some toning and foxing as is common in American books of this period. Good to very good.

First American Edition, first published in London in 1829. Teale, one of the founders of the Leeds School of Medicine in Yorkshire, was known for his attempt to apply Broussais's doctrine of irritation to the nervous system. For his contributions to surgery see Garrison-Morton.com 3589 and 4467.