Currents and counter-currents in medical science. An address delivered before the Massachusetts Medical Society, at the annual meeting, May 30, 1860

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

$300 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. 8vo. 48 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers, soiled. Ownership inscription to top wrapper. Item #15560 First edition, with the manuscript correction on page 22, presumed to be in Holmes’ hand, as found in most copies. There is some confusion as to the priority of this and the 58 page version of this pamphlet. BAL claims this as the first,

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