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Lithotomy. Its Successes and its Dangers. Being a Verbatim Report, From Shorthand Notes, of an Inquest Held Before the City Coroner
by Beaney, J.G
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Melbourne: F. F. Bailliere. 1876. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Good condition. Blue cloth boards with gilt to face and spine. Covers lightly rubbed and several faint stains to edges. Bookplate to Front Pastedown. Stamp to title page. Ferguson 6824. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 132 pages. Report of an inquest in which Beaney was accused by some fellow practictioners of killing a patient during lithotomy procedure. He was discharged by the coroner. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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- Adelaide Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB323323
- Title
- Lithotomy. Its Successes and its Dangers. Being a Verbatim Report, From Shorthand Notes, of an Inquest Held Before the City Coroner
- Author
- Beaney, J.G
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used -
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- F. F. Bailliere
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1876
- Bookseller catalogs
- Health; Medicine;
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