2 parts in one, continuously paginated. xviii, [2], [17]-532 pp. (8vo), library cloth, new endpapers. First Edition.

This was the first book by John Bell (1796- 1872), a Philadelphia surgeon who was born in Ireland. "J.S. Billings said (it) was the only comprehensive and respectable treatise on this subject published in this country at the time."--Kelly & Burrage, Dictionary of American Medical Biography, p. 89. Duveen Balneology 460. Wellcome, II, p. 138. Blocker, p. 30. Cordasco 30-0080.