COLLES, Abraham.

Selections from the Works...consisting chiefly of his practical observations on the venereal disease, and on the use of mercury. Edited, with annotations, by Robert McDonnell.

London: The New Sydenham Society, 1881. 8vo, pp. xvi, 431, engraved frontispiece portrait. Tissue guard for the portrait foxed and offset onto title, a few spots at the end, otherwise a clean copy. Publisher’s brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettered on spine and vignette on upper cover. Bookplate of Henry W. Laing, his signature at top of title, and a manuscript note on the last page. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. See G&M 2380 and 5201, Colles’s Practical Observations on the venereal disease, 1837. Colles introduced small doses of mercury in the treatment of syphilis. “Colles’s law” is named after him. This collection also includes Colles’s paper “On the operation of tying the subclavian artery” (G&M 2936), and “On the fracture of the carpal extremity of the radius” (G&M 4410), later named “Colles’s fracture”.

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