1859-1901 Collected Works of the New Sydenham Society

Description

Publishers' Original Binding

The New Sydenham Society was active from 1858 until 1907, and followed in the footsteps of the Sydenham Society, who operated from the early 1940s until the late 1850s. Named for the important seventeenth century physician Thomas Sydenham known as the English Hippocrates, their mission was one of antiquarian interest, aiming to publish medical writings and history works.

Two works are incomplete and lacking a volume: 'A Clinical Treatise on Diseases of the Liver' and 'Lectures on Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics'.

Many volumes are illustrated, including colour plates and folding plates.

With all bar one volume in the original cloth; some have been rebacked and numerous repaired.

Comprising:
 
I. 'A Treatise on Syphillis in New-Born Children and Infants at the Breast' was written by P. Diday. It was the first work published by the New Sydenham Society, in 1859.

II. 'Gooch, on some of the Most Important Diseases peculiar to Women' was published in 1859.

III. 'Memoirs on Diptheria, from the writings of Bretonneau, Guersant, Trousseau, Bouchut, Empis and Daviot' was published in 1859.

IV. 'A Clinical Treatise on Diseases of the Liver' was written by Friedrich Theodore Friedrichs, and published in 1861. It is incomplete, this being volume II of the work only. It contains two plates and in-text illustrations.

V-VIII. 'A Handbook on the practice of Forensic Medicine' is complete in four volumes, written by Johann Ludwig Casper. These were published between 1861 and 1865.

IX. 'A Guide to the Qualitative and Quantative Analysis of the Urine' was written by C. Neubauer and J. Vogel and published in 1863. It is illustrated with four plates, as well as in-text illustrations.

X. 'On the Anomalies of Accommodation and Refraction of the Eye' was written by F. C. Donders and published in 1864. It is illustrated with diagrams through the text. From the library of a nineteenth century eye doctor.

XI. 'Clinical Memoirs on the Diseases of Women' is two volumes bound as one, and the volume is bound in leather. It was written by M. Gustave Bernutz and M. Ernest Goupil.

XII-XVI. 'On Disease of the Skin, including the Exanthemata' is complete in five volumes and was written by Ferdinand Hebra.

XVII-XXI. 'Lectures on Clinical Medicine' was written by A. Trousseau, and is complete in five volumes.

XXII. 'A Collection of the Published Writings of the late Thomas Addison' was published in 1868. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author and eight plates.

XXIII-IV. 'A Manual of Pathological Histology to serve as an Introduction to the Study of Morbid Anatomy' was written by Dr. Eduard Rindfleisch. It is complete in two volumes, published in 1872 and 1873. Illustrated with in-text diagrams.

XXV-XXVI. 'The Collected Works of Dr. P. M. Latham' is complete in two volumes, published in 1876 and 1879.

XXVII-XXXI. 'Smellie's Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery' is complete in three volumes, published between 1876 and 1878. Volume I is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author.

XXXII. 'Lectures on Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics' by Dr. Theodor Billroth was published in 1877. Incomplete; lacking the second volume. Illustrated with in-text diagrams throughout.

XXXIII. 'The Medical Digest' by Dr. Richard Neale is a medical sciences bibliography, published in 1877.

XXXIV-XXXV. 'Bibliotheca Therapeutica, or Bibliography of Therapeutics' is complete in two volumes, written by Edward John Waring.

XXXVI. 'A Handbook of Physical Diagnosis comprising the Throat, Thorax and Abdomen' was written by Dr. Paul Guttman, and translated from the third German edition. Published in 1879. It is illustrated with five plates.

XXXVII. 'Investigations into the Etiology of Traumatic Infective Diseases' was written by Dr. Robert Koch and published in 1880. It is illustrated with five plates.

XXXVIII. 'Selections from the Works of Abraham Colles' was published in 1881, and is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author.

XXXIX. 'A Treatise on the Diagnosis and Treatment of the Diseases of the Chest' was published in 1882, and written by William Stokes. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author.

XL. 'Selections from the Works of the late J. Warburton Begbie' was published in 1882, and is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author.

XLI. 'Lectures on the Localisation of Cerebral and Spinal Diseases' was published in 1883, and written by J. M. Charcot. Illustrated with in-text diagrams throughout.

XLII-III. 'Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology' is complete in three volumes and was written by Dr. August Hirsch.

XLIV. 'Recent Essays by Various Authors on Bacteria in Relation to Disease' was published in 1886 and written by various authors, including Koch, Friedlander and Loeffler. Illustrated with eight plates. An early and important collection on the nature of bacteria.

XLV. 'Selected Monographs: Raynaud's Essays on Local Asphyxia, Klebs and Crudeli on the Nature of Malaria, Marchiafava and Celli on the Origin of Melanaemia and Neugebauer on Spondyl-olisthesis' was published in 1888.

XLVI-II. 'Lectures on Children's Diseases, a Handbook for Practitioners and Students' was written by Dr. E. Henoch and is complete in two volumes, published in 1889. 

XLVIII-L. 'Lectures on General Pathology, a Handbook for Practitioners and Students' was written by Julius Conheim and published between 1889 and 1890. Complete in three volumes.

LI. 'Microorganisms with special reference to the Etiology of the Infective Diseases' was written by C. Flugge' and published in 1890. With vignette illustrations throughout.

LII-III. 'Lectures on Diseases of the Digestive Organs' was written by C. A. Ewald and is complete in two volumes, published in 1891 and 1892.

LIV. 'Selected Monographs on Dermatology' was published in 1893 and contains the writings of the likes of Duhring, Berger, Prince-Morrow and Nielsen.

LV-I. 'A Collection of the Published Writings of William Withey Gull' was published in 1894, and is complete in two volumes. Volume LV is illustrated with twenty plates, volume LVI with a frontispiece portrait of the author and one plate. LVI contains the memoir and addresses of Gull. Loosely inserted is a newspaper clipping announcing his death.

LVI. 'Clinical Lectures on subjects connected with Medicine and Surgery by various German Authors' was published in 1894, and contains three plates.

LVII. 'Selected Essays and Monographs' was published in 1897, and includes writings by Kobner, Bruhl, Maxwell and Wallbridge. It is illustrated with six plates in colour, as well as one folding plate.

LVIII. 'On Fractures and Dislocations' was published in 1899, and written by Dr. H. Helferich. It is illustrated with sixty-eight plates including two folding plates, as well as in-text illustrations.

LIX. 'Selected Essays and Monographs from Foreign Sources' was published in 1900, and contains one folding table and one illustration. With writings from Maschalko, Heidelberg, Ehlers and Fournier amongst others.

LX. 'Selected Essays and Monographs' was published in 1901, and contains eight plates and three portraits. With the writings of the likes of Braxton Hicks, Hodgkin, Paget and Ehlers.

LXI. 'Restrospective Memoranda' was published in 1911, and comprises an index of all works published between 1859 and 1907. It was compiled by Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, and is complete with a portrait of the author.

A very scarce and extremely important collection of varied medical works.