ABERCROMBIE (John). Pathological and Practical Researches on Diseases of the Brain and the Spinal Cord.1829

Edinburgh: Printed for Waugh and Innes, Second edition, enlarged, 8vo (225 x 140mm), half-title, xix, [1], 476pp., original boards, uncut, spine chipped, covers detached. Abercrombie was one of the chief consulting physicians and medical teachers in Scotland and showed an early interest in the mental aspects of medicine. He kept careful notes of all patients seen in his extensive practice among the rich and poor, and these formed the basis of this book. Hunter and MacAlpine, p. 801.