MOORE (James). A Dissertation on the Process of Nature in the filling up of cavities, healing of wounds, and restoring parts which have been destroyed in the human body; which obtained the prize-medal, given by the Lyceum Medicum Londinense, for the year MDCCLXXXIX; and was ordered to be printed for the use of the society. By James Moore, member of the Surgeon's Company of London.1789

London: Printed by John Richardson, First edition, 4to (239 x 190 mm), 76pp., with half-title, recent calf-backed marbled boards, leather spine label lettered in gilt. James Carrick Moore (1763-1834) became an army medical officer and set up a surgical practice in London. He was a supporter of Edward Jenner, the pioneer of smallpox vaccination. Provenance: Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute with a faint neat ink stamp to margin of title. Wellcome IV, p.167.