1924-1961 Medical Works by Geoffrey Keynes

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Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

Seven exceptionally scarce medical works by prominent twentieth century surgeon and bibliographer Geoffrey Keynes.

The earliest work present here is Keynes's very scarce 1924 edition of Sir Thomas Browne's 'Notes for a Lecture on the Skin'. Keynes offers an introduction to a brief collection of notes made by Browne in the late seventeenth century on the subject of human skin.

The second work present is the British Medical Journal's very scarce 1949 printing of Keynes's fifteen page essay 'The Results of Thymectomy in Myasthenia Gravis', based upon a lecture he gave in the July of that year.

Keynes pioneered the removal of the thymus gland, which is now the standard treatment for myasthenia gravis.

The essay 'Thymectomy for Myasthenia Gravis', reprinted from the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Journal, No. 240, Vol. LXVI.

Also present is Keynes's study 'Thymus Gland', drawn from the eighth volume of the British Surgical Practice journal, and the 1952 lecture 'Thymus', drawn from the February 1953 volume o the Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England'.

The final two works are two discussions of 'notable acquisitions for the library', published in the Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. The first work is 'The Anatomy of Thomas Geminus' (1959), and the second is 'The Epitome of Vesalius' (1961).

Geoffrey Keynes began his career as a First World War surgeon, before making notable innovations in the fields of blood transfusion and breast cancer surgery. He was also a publishing scholar and bibliographer of English literature and English medical history, focusing primarily on William Blake and William Harvey.