Myelitis of the anterior horns

Séguin, Edward C. (1843-98). Myelitis of the anterior horns or spinal paralysis of the adult and child. [6], 120, [2, adverts.]pp. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1877. 233 x 148 mm. Original cloth, a few small holes in the spine from insect damage. Very good. Bookplate.

First Book-Form Edition, rewritten and enlarged, of Séguin's paper titled "Spinal paralysis of the adult." Séguin, a student of Itard and Esquirol, emigrated from France to the United States and became one of the leading American neurologists of his day. "His lectures as early as 1870 contain an approach to neurology that was not taken by others until the 1880s or 1890s" (McHenry, Garrison's History of Neurology, p. 332).