HENOCH, E[duard].

Berlin: August Hirschwald, .1861

8vo, pp. viii, (ii), 213, 30 (adverts). Paper slightly browned, library stamp at foot of title and on endpapers. Contemporary quarter cloth, marbled sides, good copy.

FIRST EDITION. G&M 6336. Henoch initiated the modern concept of paediatrics. This was the first of his publications on the subject. See Abt, Paediatrics, pp. 94–95.

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