[Item #48178] Memoir of Thomas C. James, M.D., One of the Vice Presidents of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania... Read at the Annual Meeting of the Society, on the 1st of February, 1836. MEDICINE, OBSTETRICS, GYNECOLOGY, Thomas C. JAMES.

Memoir of Thomas C. James, M.D., One of the Vice Presidents of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania... Read at the Annual Meeting of the Society, on the 1st of February, 1836

Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis, 1836. First Edition. Octavo (ca. 22cm.); removed; 24pp. Light foxing and dust-soil, blue paper remnants along spine, else Very Good and sound.

Short biographical address on the life and career of Thomas C. James (1766-1835), leader in scientific obstetrics in the United States, who in 1810 presented a paper describing the first successful case of premature labor artificially induced. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 40622a; SABIN 97649.

Price: $75.00

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