Search Results: brain abscess its surgical pathology and by eagleton wells phillips

Paperback / softback. New.

New York:: Macmillan, 1922, 1922. 8vo. xix, [2], 297 pp. Frontis., pls., 40 figs. Green gilt-stamped cloth. Very good. The author applies 'the technique elaborated by Cushing for aseptic brain operations, to the exploration of the cranial fossae for meningeal or brain abscess. He examines all physiological, mechanical and pathological aspects 'that bear on the prevention, evolution, and eradication of brain abscess.' / Eagleton, Wells Phillips (1865–1946) American neurologist who described cavernous sinus thrombophlebitis in relation to septicemia in 1926.

Hardback. New.

New York: Macmillan , 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto. Plate illustrations. Publisher's blind- and gilt-stamped dark green cloth. Eagleton was the first surgeon to propose using a trapezoidal flap with base uppermost to allow complete inspection of the brain. Walker, History of Neurological Surgery, pp. 197-198. A fine, clean, unmarked copy with ownership signature, possibly significant.