Illustrations of pulmonary consumption, its anatomical characters, causes, symptoms and treatment. With twelve plates, drawn and coloured from nature / by Samuel George Morton.

Philadelphia : Key & Biddle, 1834.

xiii, 4 unnumbered pages, [10]-183 pages, xii plates : illustrations ; 8o

Note: A native of Philadelphia, Morton graduated MD at Edinburgh in 1823. He made important contributions to both anthropology and clinical medicine. This work, the first on pulmonary tuberculosis to be published in the USA, summarised the knowledge of the time and included vivid descriptions and illustrations of the disease

This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.