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The Anatomy of the Absorbing Vessels of the Human Body – William Cruikshank

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This is a superb facsimile of the original edition published in 1790. A special issue by Classics of Medicine published in 1991. Bound in full slate coloured grained leather with sumptuous gold embossing all page edges gilt. Small quarto, 214 pages in vary good near fine condition. Very good plates some double folding.

A facsimile of the second edition as it was “considerably enlarged, and illustrated additional plates”. Comes with the original small explanatory booklet.

William Cruikshank (1745-1800) established the modern understanding of human lymphatics. William Hunter began this work, but it was Cruikshank who produced the definitive account … After Hunter’s death Cruickshank and Hunter’s nephew, Matthew Baillie carried on the famous anatomy school. Nelson was one of Cruickshank’s patients as well as Samuel Johnson

Cruikshank understood the lymphatic system

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