A PARTICULAR NARRATIVE OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED RELATIVE TO A PAPER PUBLISHED IN THE 51st VOLUME OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS, ENTITLED 'AN ACCOUNT OF A REMARKABLE OPERATION ON A BROKEN ARM, &c.' IN WHICH THE PRINCIPAL FACTS ARE PROVED BY EVIDENCE

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Stippled black cloth with gilt-lettered spine, clean and unworn, this is a recent binding with gray end-papers and paste-down plus 5 blank sheets to end, red text-block edges unlikely to be original. t.p. + 35; t.p. has c. 3 cm diameter light brown blotich to bottom outer corner and early ink ' g. ' centre top margin, otherwise internally clean and unmarked, leaves somewhat rippled but these quite shallow and not of great consequence. An interesting little controversy in which the operating surgeon, James Burchall, took issue with White's paper in a letter to Lloyd's Evening Post, on the grounds that White had claimed to be the surgeon, White responds that he did not but that he was responsible for designing the device (some kind of splint) which had saved the patient's arm from being amputated, as Burchall thought would be necessary (injury was a compound fracture of the humerus). This White denies and the argument goes back and forth in the Lloyd's Evening Post and British Chronicle several times with other witnesses entering the fray eventually confirming that Burchall had been in favour of amputation, which he had denied. 13.5 cm x 20.5 cm. N° de ref. del artículo 012814

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