Über krankhafte Verschliessung grösserer Venen-Stämme des menschlichen Körpers

Berlin: G Bethge, 1839. First Edition.. Contemporary paper boards... Generally good with some light spotting throughout and occasional marginal pencil notes.. 8vo, [4], 124 pp.

A forgotten, prescient work. This is Stannius' second published book and first monograph on a specific ailment. He later made a major contribution to the understanding of the functioning of the heart (G-M #812). The book offered here is an explanation of the complex mechanisms of arteriosclerosis (see Jones, Broken Hearts, Part I for the discussion of the same topic with the benefit of modern diagnostic tools). Absent from Bedford; absent from Kligfield; see G - M #812 for the author's book on the heart; Hirsch V, 390; Jones, Broken Hearts, Part I.