KOECKER, Leonard.

An Essay on the Diseases of the Jaws, and their Treatment; with Observations on the Amputation of a Part or the whole of the Inferior Maxilla: tending to prove that such Operation is seldom, if ever, Necessary.

Two lithographed plates (one hand colored). 1 p.l., 95, [1] pp., [2] pp. of ads. 8vo, orig. blue boards (neatly rebacked in grey paper, corners rounded), uncut. London: T& G. Underwood; Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & T. Lea, 1828. First edition. Koecker (1785-1850), a native of Bremen, went to Baltimore in 1807 and "settled there as a dentist and soon developed a lucrative practice on the basis of his adeptness and his courteous manners...[He was] an early advocate of the theory of odontogenic focal infections."­Hoffmann-Axthelm, History of Dentistry, p. 274. Very nice copy. Bookplate of the Medical Society of the County of Kings with stamp on title and on verso of the plates. Weinberger, Dental Bibliography, pp. 78-79.

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