LITTLE, William John (1810-1894). Symbolae ad talipedem varum cognoscendum. Pars I . (-- Pars II ). Berlin: Nietack, 1837. 4 o (251 x 206 mm). Part I and II title-pages bound in facing each other, errata leaf at end. (Slight marginal discoloration). Original dark green pebble-grained cloth, original paper spine label (label defective, some wear and staining). Provenance : (?) Daldy (presentation inscription: "Daldy Esq. With the Author's best regards."). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY of Little's doctoral thesis. Little, a native of London who suffered from club-foot, studied medicine in Berlin under Johannes Peter Mller. While there he learned of a new subcutaneous method of treatment of the deformity developed by the orthopedic surgeon Georg Stromeyer of Hanover. The latter operated successfully on Little, who became his student, choosing for the subject of his dissertation the variety of club-foot known as talipes varus . Little introduced in England Stromeyer's method of tenotomy for the treatment of club-foot, and wrote the classic English monograph on the disease, On the nature of club-foot and analogous distortions (London 1839). He became the first eminent English orthopedic surgeon, and assisted in founding the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital. RARE. Norman 1375.
LITTLE, William John (1810-1894). Symbolae ad talipedem varum cognoscendum. Pars I . (-- Pars II ). Berlin: Nietack, 1837. 4 o (251 x 206 mm). Part I and II title-pages bound in facing each other, errata leaf at end. (Slight marginal discoloration). Original dark green pebble-grained cloth, original paper spine label (label defective, some wear and staining). Provenance : (?) Daldy (presentation inscription: "Daldy Esq. With the Author's best regards."). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY of Little's doctoral thesis. Little, a native of London who suffered from club-foot, studied medicine in Berlin under Johannes Peter Mller. While there he learned of a new subcutaneous method of treatment of the deformity developed by the orthopedic surgeon Georg Stromeyer of Hanover. The latter operated successfully on Little, who became his student, choosing for the subject of his dissertation the variety of club-foot known as talipes varus . Little introduced in England Stromeyer's method of tenotomy for the treatment of club-foot, and wrote the classic English monograph on the disease, On the nature of club-foot and analogous distortions (London 1839). He became the first eminent English orthopedic surgeon, and assisted in founding the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital. RARE. Norman 1375.
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