Hunter, Surgery, 1841

Lectures on the Principles of Surgery. By John Hunter, F.R.S. With Notes by James F Palmer, senior surgeon to the St. George’s and St. James’s Dispensary, fellow of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, etc. Etc. Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 29 Market Street. 1841. 
 
20th century blue cloth with gold text on spine. Scatted small scuffs on spine. Prior owner’s name (Steven White) in ink on front paste down. New end papers. Mild toning and foxing. 400 pages plus four leaves of ads and original blank at rear. 
 
This edition printed from transcribed notes of Hunter’s lectures given in 1786 & 1787. 
 
“John Hunter, even more remarkable than his remarkable brother, William, was an anatomist and surgeon, practicing in London. He lacked the education and culture of his brother, yet his tireless energy helped him to overcome whatever obstacles his educational and cultural lacks may have provided” (Heirs 968). "Hunter remains one of the great all-round biologists like Haller and Johannes Müller, and with Paré and Lister, one of the three greatest surgeons of all time. . . . Hunter found surgery a mechanical art and left it an experimental science" (Garrison).