The Surgical Complications and Sequels of Typhoid Fever. SIGNED BY WILLIAM W. KEEN TO DR. ROLAND FLECK

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386 pp; 5 plates; text figs. Original cloth. Very Good. First Edition. SIGNED BY WILLIAM W. KEEN TO DR. ROLAND FLECK: "To Dr. Roland F. Fleck/ with the kind regards of/ W. W. Keen/ Philadelphia/ June 5, 1920" (see photo). "In 1876, Keen delivered the fifth Toner Lecture on the surgical complications and sequels of continued fevers . . . which was published in 1877 as a 68 page monograph. In 1896, Keen delivered the Shattuck Lecture before the Massachusetts Medical Society. These lectures formed the basis for his Surgical Complications. He included in the volume the six complications and sequels discussed in his Toner Lecture and added a chapter on the surgical affections of typhoid fever and twelve chapters on complications of particular organs and regions. Most books on complications of surgery were not written until the twentieth century. In this respect Keen's work is quite remarkable" (Rutkow GS178). The title page (see photo) reads: The Surgical Complications and Sequels of Typhoid Fever by William W. Keen. Based upon Tables of 1700 Cases Compiled by the Author and by Thompson S. Westcott. With a Chapter on the Ocular Complications of Typhoid Fever by George E. De Schweinitz. And as an Appendix, the Toner Lecture, no. V. N° de ref. del artículo 7633

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