The Healing of Nerves. Offered with: AUTOGRAPH NOTE, SIGNED, FROM CHARLES A. BALLANCE TO GEOFFREY JEFFERSON, PRESENTING HIM WITH THIS COPY.

BALLANCE, Charles A. & PURVES STEWART

Verlag: London & New York: Macmillan, 1901.

Beschreibung

x, 1 leaf, 112 pp; 1 fig.; 16 chromolithographs. 4to. Original cloth. Top & bottom of spine chipped. Corners of covers worn. First Edition. Ballance and Purves Stewart "carefully explored the matter of degeneration and regeneration of peripheral nerves after they have been divided" (Heirs of Hippocrates 2173). "Ballance and Purves-Stewart were clearly among the first to understand the histological changes in a nerve graft. Other than thinking that neurilemma cells laid down new axons, . . . they had an overall level of understanding of the process well ahead of their time" (James L. Stone, "Sir Charles Balance: Pioneer British Neurological Surgeon", Neurosurgery, Vol. 44, no. 3, March 1999, p. 621). Offered with: AUTOGRAPH NOTE, SIGNED, FROM BALLANCE TO GEOFFREY JEFFERSON, PRESENTING HIM WITH THIS COPY. Printed letterhead: 106 Harley Street,/ Cavendish Square W. "Jan 28/27/ Dear Jefferson,/ I saw a second hand copy of the "Healing of Nerves"/ in Lewis's Library this afternoon. I thought you/ might like it. It is early effort! I promptly/ grabbed it. Yours/ CAB". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 16138

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Titel: The Healing of Nerves. Offered with: ...

Verlag: London & New York: Macmillan, 1901.

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

Auflage: 1st Edition