Shorthouse, Joseph Henry (d. 1883), MD, MRCS

'Observations on the extraction of teeth; being a practical inquiry into the advantages and safety attending the employment of forceps properly constructed, and an exposition of the dangers to which the key is liable'. With four plates bearing pen and pencil sketch of teeth and dental implements.

1846

89 ff. 1 vol., 183 × 118 mm. Some cropping. Modern, quarter-calf binding with marbed boards. Spine letterd in gilt 'on the extraction of teeth 1846'.

Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, 1996.

Shorthouse, of Tonbridge, Kent, seems to have been a pupil of William James West, MRCS, a surgeon of the town, to whom the work is dedicated. It was apparently never published.

Described in typescript supplements to the library's published manuscript catalogues.