WILLIAM HENRY WELCH AND THE HEROIC AGE OF AMERICAN MEDICINE
by FLEXNER, Simon & James Thomas
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. 26 plates. 8vo, 539 pages, red cloth; worn dj
Dr. Welch was known as the Dean of American Medicine, partly for having helped to establish the Johns Hopkins Medical School. Signed by the co-authors. Welch's contribution to medicine is incalculable. He started the first American pathological laboratory, and edited America's first scientific medical journal.
Dr. Welch was known as the Dean of American Medicine, partly for having helped to establish the Johns Hopkins Medical School. Signed by the co-authors. Welch's contribution to medicine is incalculable. He started the first American pathological laboratory, and edited America's first scientific medical journal.
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- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- DEMO012239I
- Title
- WILLIAM HENRY WELCH AND THE HEROIC AGE OF AMERICAN MEDICINE
- Author
- FLEXNER, Simon & James Thomas
- Illustrator
- 26 plates
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- johns hopkins medical school, william h. welch, william henry welch, China, public health, pathology,
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Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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