Report Of The Trial Of An Action Charles Lowell Against John Faxon And Micajah Hawks Doctors Of

by Medical Malpractice

$450 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

Portland: Printed for James Adams, Jr., 1825. 8vo, 124 pp. Original wrappers detached, rather worn, ex-library with bookplate and stamps. § First edition. The defense of physicians John Faxon and Micajah Hawks in the case brought by their patient Charles Lowell, who charged incompetence in the treatment of Lowell's dislocation of the hip joint after a fall from a horse in 1821. Lowell sued Faxon and Hawks for malpractice and asked for 10,000 in damages. In

• Binding: Wrappers

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