Description: Title: Lessons in Practical Anatomy, for the Use of Dissectors.Author: William Edmonds Horner, M. D.Publisher: H. C. Carey & I. Lea, Philadelphia.Publication Date: 1827; Second EditionFormat: hardcover; leather Length: 500 pages; plus 16 pages of publisher’s ads.Size: approximately 5 5/8" by 8 3/4"Illustrations: noneDescription: According to the University Archives & Records Center at The University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Libraries, where his papers are archived, William Edmonds Horner was dean of the Medical School of Pennsylvania (1822-1852), Professor of Anatomy (1831-1853), and wrote the first pathology textbook published in the United States (Treatise on Pathological Anatomy, 1829). Born in Warrenton, Virginia, on June 3, 1793, Horner was educated at Reverend Charles O’Neill’s private academy, and was later apprenticed to the Dumfries, Virginia, physician John Spence in 1809. After his apprenticeship, Horner traveled to Philadelphia to attend the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. He served during the War of 1812 as a surgeon’s mate in charge of an Army Hospital near the Canadian border. Horner’s surgical experience in the Army would prove valuable later in his career. In 1816 Horner began his career at the University of Pennsylvania when he was offered the position of dissector by Caspar Wistar, eventually rising to the position of Dean of the Medical School, and professor of anatomy. He traveled to Europe in 1821, where in France he was impressed by their advances in pathology, which influenced him to write a textbook on the subject and introduce the topic to American medical schools. Throughout his career, Horner was very active in the Philadelphia medical community – serving on the city’s sanitary board and being in charge of the cholera hospital in 1832, and as a founder of Saint Joseph’s Hospital. Raised as an Episcopalian, Horner converted to Catholicism in 1839 following his experience with Roman Catholic priests and nuns during the cholera epidemic. Horner died in Philadelphia on March 13, 1853.”Provenance: Inscriptions on the first front facing endpaper document two 19th-century owner’s of this early American medical book. The earlier inscription reads “A. W. (?) Wilson, Philadelphia Nov. 8th 183?” The later inscription reads “Joseph E. Reid, Norfolk Va, Decr 10th 1849.” This is Dr. Joseph E. Read (1829-1899), a Virginia native. Read married Eliza B. Old in 1853 at Portsmouth, Norfolk County, Virginia. Most of Read’s career as a physician was spent in nearby Currituck County, North Carolina, where he died in 1899. His remains were returned to Norfolk, Virginia where he was interred in Elmwood Cemetery.Special Feature: One of the rear end papers has folk art pencil drawing of an officer in military uniform.Condition: The front cover and first front facing end paper are nearly detached. The cover shows considerable wear. The spine has significant surface loss. The pages are toned and foxed, and several are damp stained. There is an occasional turned corner and an occasional pencil marking. Despite these condition issues this is a rare early American medical imprint that is nearly 200 years old.
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Binding: Leather
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Language: English
Topic: Medicine
Subject: Science & Medicine
Year Printed: 1827
