Medical bibliography. A and B / by James Atkinson.

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1834
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Medical bibliography. A and B / by James Atkinson. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : John Churchill, 1834.

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4 unnumbered pages, iv, 379, 1 unnumbered page, vii, 2 unnumbered pages ; 8o

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Refr: G&M 6754.1; Wellcome II, p66 Desc: (R14805) With an advertisement leaf for the above work bound in at the end Prov: (R14805) Inscribed - 'Presented to the Library of the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh by Colonel Chatterton 4th R.I. Dragoon Guards, Edinburgh June 1846' Note: The above work is of little scientific value, but the extensive annotations make it "the most humorous bibliography of medical literature ever published" (G&M). Atkinson was surgeon to the Duke of York and senior surgeon to York County Hospital. Published when he was 74 years old, there is no indication that he intended to continue the work beyond the letter B Dplt: Duplicate copy

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