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Virchow, Rudolph.
A Description and Explanation of the Method of Performing Post-Mortem Examinations in the Dead-House of the Berlin Charité Hospital, with Especial Reference to Medico-Legal Practice.
Publisher: J. & A. Churchill, London;
Date of Publication: 1880
Stock Code: 14833
Second British edition. Sixteenmo, pp., viii, 124, [16] of publisher’s advertisements. Publisher’s chocolate cloth, titled in gilt to spine and upper board; blind fillets to upper board. Ink-staining to upper board, joints lightly rubbed, corners bumped. Very occasional spotting and light even toning to contents. A well-preserved copy. Rudolf Birchow (1821-1902) was a German physician celebrated as the ‘Father of Modern Pathology’. He was the first to describe leukemia, chordoma, ochronosis, embolism, and thrombosis. This book describes Virchow’s pioneering method of systematic autopsy, the first of its kind in the world. Virchow’s method of dissecting each organ individually is still the standard practice world-wide. The second British edition of a significant work of pathology, by its first modern practitioner. £150.00