Item #102084 The Australian Medical Journal for 1864. Volume IX. Australian Medical Journal.
The Australian Medical Journal for 1864. Volume IX
The Australian Medical Journal for 1864. Volume IX

The Australian Medical Journal for 1864. Volume IX

Melbourne, Wilson and Mackinnon, 1864.

Octavo, [ii], 386 pages with 4 illustrations.

Contemporary half calf and cloth; leather lightly rubbed at the extremities, with minor wear to the corner tips; endpapers offset; 1950s Commonwealth Department of Health stamps and related call numbers on a few pages; an excellent copy.

Twelve monthly issues bound together with a title leaf and a cumulative index at the rear. There are numerous articles of interest in the volume, including several short ones on snake-bite (approximately 6 pages), and a series of three important lectures on the heart by Professor George Britton Halford (32 pages with 4 illustrations). Halford was appointed Foundation Chair of Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology at Melbourne University in 1862.

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