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1893 · 1706 — <p>Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co. 1893. First American edition. 1893</p><p><strong>DRAMATIC ILLUSTRATIONS OF CANCER AND MALFORMATIONS IN HUMANS AND ANIMALS. </strong></p><p>13.5 x 22 cm hardcover red cloth binding gilt title to spine colored frontispiece of fungating sebaceous cyst with tissue guard i-xvi 511 pp 250 wood engravings and 9 plates 6 colored with tissue guards. Light browning to pages unmarked a very good copy of this extraordinary collection of illlustrations of abnormal growths in humans and animals.</p><p><strong>SIR JOHN BLAND SUTTON </strong>1855 - 1936 a British physician entered Middlesex Hospital London as a medical student and in 1884 was appointed to the staff of the hospital. He became successively Lecturer in Anatomy Assistant SurgeonSurgeon and finally in 1920 Consulting Surgeon. He was one of the first in that hospital to undertake abdominal operations in the early days of Listerian asepsis. In 1910 he was elected to the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons and in 1920 became president of the Royal Society of Medicine. Sir John contributed much to medical literature and was the author of several well known books including Tumours Innocent and Malignant offered here. In his work on tumours he endeavoured to set forth a classification on embryological principles and to illustrate his points by comparative pathology. In his interest in the lower animals and his love for scientific method Bland-Sutton suggests comparison with John Hunter.</p> Lea Brothers & Co. hardcover