Medical and surgical monographs / by Ashwell [and others].

Philadelphia : Waldie, 1840.

345 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Researches on the state of the heart and the use of wine in typhus fever / William Stokes -- On perforations of the stomach, from poisoning and disease / Alfred S. Taylor -- On incision in cases of occlusion, and rigidity of the uterus / Samuel Ashwell -- Observations on fibrinous concretions of the heart / H.M. Hughes -- Dissertation on the physiological inferences to be derived from the structure of the nervous system in the invertebrated classes of animals / William B. Carpenter -- Memoir on the radical cure of club-foot / H. Scoutetten -- Report of primary syphilitic cases / Charles Aston Key -- Report on the physiology of the nervous system / William Charles Henry -- Sketch of the origin and progress of Asiatic cholera / Robert J. Graves.

Copy 1. Also bound in: t.p. to the American Medical Intelligencer, Apr. 1, 1839 to Apr. 1, 1840. Gold tooled lettering on spine: Vol. 3.

Copy 2. Bound with: Medical and surgical monographs. 1839. Binding: 19th century marbled papers and calf spine and corners, spine label in burgundy leather lettered Medical Tracts. Lacks pp. 49-104, i.e. essays by Alfred Taylor and Samuel Ashwell. Most of p. 345 has been removed, probably to remove manuscript notes from blank area.