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LONSDALE, Henry.
Presenting Remarkable Peculiarities in the Arrangement of the Nervous System; With a Brief Inquiry Into Its Teratological and Medico-Legal Relations.

Description:
pp. 17, (i). 1 plate. Stab-sewn, original wraps as issued, part unopened, small marginal tear in one leaf, a very good copy.

*'A female belonging to the labouring class residing in the north of England, who, if I remember rightly, had borne several children, and all well-formed and healthy, was delivered, eighteen months ago, of a female child, at the full term of utero-gestation, exhibiting some peculiarities about the head, which immediately attracted the attention of those in attendance.'

From the Edin.Med.and Surg. Journal, no.157.

Date Published: No date [c.1840]. 8vo.

Stock No. 60319

Price: £45.00

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