NEUROSURGERY

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[ Sir Victor Horsley, pioneer of neurosurgery and social reformer. ] Autograph Signature ('Victor Horsley') on part of letter addressed to Dr J. Davidson.

Author: 
Sir Victor Horsley [ Sir Victor Alexander Haden Horsley ] (1857-1916), FRS, Professor of Pathology (1887-1896) and of Clinical Surgery (1899-1902), University College, London
Publication details: 
Without place or date.
£20.00

On 5 x 17.5 cm strip cut from the end of a letter. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper. Reads: 'With kind regards | Yours sincerely | Victor Horsley | J. Davidson E. MD. &c.'

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The illness of Dean Swift.

Author: 
Sir Walter Russell Brain [Jonathan Swift]
Publication details: 
Reprint from August, 1952 issue | Irish Journal Medical Science'.
£32.00

Eight pages, 8vo, paginated [337]-344. Stitched as issued. Good, in slightly faded light-green printed card wraps. Inscribed 'with best wishes from Russell.' A nine-line printed passage on a strip of paper has been neatly glued over text on page 343. 'I suggest that the so-called "crisis" in Swift's illness was not in fact related to the cause of his initial mental deterioration, but was an infective intracranial complication of his orbital cellulitis, leading to severe and lasting motor aphasia.' (page 339)

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