Stokes, Diseases of the Chest, 1837 (first edition)

A Treatise on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Chest. Part I. Diseases of the Lung and Windpipe. By William Stokes, M. D., M. R. I. A., Corresponding Member of the Medico-Chirurgical Societies of Berlin and Leipzig, Honorary Member of the Hunterian Society of Edinburgh, Physician to the Meath Hospital and County of Dublin Infirmary, Etc. Dublin: Hodges and Smith, College-Green. 1837. 
 
Octavo in later quarter leather with marbled paper over boards. Speckled brown leather with raised bands and black title label with gold text on spine. Marbled page edges. A couple subtle smudged and scratches on boards, mostly obscured by the marbling. New end papers. Early owner’s name in ink on title page (possibly Wm Hargrave??). Mild toning of title page. Minimal foxing throughout. Margins slightly trimmed into neat and sparse penciled marginalia. Otherwise, Margins still ample. Bright and tight throughout. 
 
New ffep, title – xx, 557, new rfep. 
 
Part I was all that was ever published. William Stokes (Oct 1, 1804 – Jan 10, 1878). G-M 2213: “Stokes, most prominent of the Irish school of medicine, established his reputation by his book on diseases of the chest. Important among its contents are his discovery of a stage of pneumonia prior to that described by Laennec as the first, his observations that contraction of the side has sometimes followed the cure of pneumonia and that paralysis of the intercostal muscles and diaphragm may result from pleurisy, and his employment of the stethoscope as an aid to the detection of foreign bodies in the air passages.” 
 
Stokes is, of course, still eponymized in the Cheyne-Stokes respiration pattern which may precede apnea.