Medical and surgical monographs / by Ashwell [and others].

Philadelphia : Waldie, 1840.

345 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Copy 1. Also bound in: t.p. to the American Medical Intelligencer, Apr. 1, 1839 to Apr. 1, 1840. Gold tooled lettering on spine: Vol. 3.

Copy 2. Bound with: Medical and surgical monographs. 1839. Binding: 19th century marbled papers and calf spine and corners, spine label in burgundy leather lettered Medical Tracts. Lacks pp. 49-104, i.e. essays by Alfred Taylor and Samuel Ashwell. Most of p. 345 has been removed, probably to remove manuscript notes from blank area.

Researches on the state of the heart and the use of wine in typhus fever / William Stokes -- On perforations of the stomach, from poisoning and disease / Alfred S. Taylor -- On incision in cases of occlusion, and rigidity of the uterus / Samuel Ashwell -- Observations on fibrinous concretions of the heart / H.M. Hughes -- Dissertation on the physiological inferences to be derived from the structure of the nervous system in the invertebrated classes of animals / William B. Carpenter -- Memoir on the radical cure of club-foot / H. Scoutetten -- Report of primary syphilitic cases / Charles Aston Key -- Report on the physiology of the nervous system / William Charles Henry -- Sketch of the origin and progress of Asiatic cholera / Robert J. Graves.