BRIGHT, Richard (1789-1858). Reports of Medical Cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy . London: Richard Taylor for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827-1831.
BRIGHT, Richard (1789-1858). Reports of Medical Cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy . London: Richard Taylor for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827-1831. 2 volumes in 3, 4 o (300 x 237 mm). 47 hand-colored engraved plates (1 folding); 7 uncolored lithographed plates (4 folding) (vol. I, plate 1 remargined [as in Norman copy], vol. I, plate 3 with imprint cropped, plate 9 in vol. III cropped at bottom, several plate numbers in vol. III supplied by hand [also as in Norman copy]). (Lacking half-titles, some occasional spotting.) Contemporary half calf, marbled boards (joints cracked, cover of vol. 3 detached, inner hinges reinforced). Provenance : Dr. Morrell Wyman (presentation inscription to Dr. William J. Councilman; listed as donor on bookplate of:) Harvard University Medical School (inkstamp on verso of titles); Irwin J. Pincus, M.D. (his sale Christie's New York, 6 December 2004, lot 63). FIRST EDITION. The 54 plates in this work, of which 47 were meticulously hand-colored, are among the most beautiful illustrations of diseased organs. Most were drawn by Frederick Richard Say a distinguished portraitist whose portrait of Bright now hangs in the Royal College of Physicians of London. "In order to achieve the most poignant reproductions of his post-mortem material, Bright was probably required to bring Say to the autopsy room whenever a specimen of interest arose. Say presumably produced a water color image of the specimen on the spot which was subsequently copied by the engraver" (Fine, p. 779). Say's father William, who produced the majority of the plates, used mezzotint variously combined with line-engraving, stipple, and soft-ground etching to create the printed images. The first volume of Bright's series of case histories correlating clinical and pathological phenomena is most famous for its classic description of the complex of kidney disorders known as "Bright's disease." Bright was the first to distinguish between renal and cardiac edema, and the first to link renal edema and the presence of albumin in the urine with particular structural changes in the kidneys observed post-mortem. The second volume, divided into two parts, is entirely devoted to neuropathology, and contains detailed case histories illustrating brain tumors, hydrocephalus, ruptured intercranial aneurysm, hysteria, epilepsy, post-traumatic necrosis of the tips of the front and temporal lobes, and staining of the meninges in jaundice, as well as many other examples of congenital, neoplastic, infectious and vascular diseases of the brain. Fine, "Pathological specimens of the kidney examined by Richard Bright," Kidney International 29 (1986), pp. 779-783; Garrison-Morton 2285 & 4206; Goldschmid, pp. 126-127; Norman 341; Osler 1340; Peitzman, "Bright's disease and Bright's generation-toward exact medicine at Guy's Hospital," Bull. Hist. Med. 55 (1981), pp. 307-321; Waller 1460; Wellcome II, p. 239. (3)
BRIGHT, Richard (1789-1858). Reports of Medical Cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy . London: Richard Taylor for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827-1831.
BRIGHT, Richard (1789-1858). Reports of Medical Cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy . London: Richard Taylor for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827-1831. 2 volumes in 3, 4 o (300 x 237 mm). 47 hand-colored engraved plates (1 folding); 7 uncolored lithographed plates (4 folding) (vol. I, plate 1 remargined [as in Norman copy], vol. I, plate 3 with imprint cropped, plate 9 in vol. III cropped at bottom, several plate numbers in vol. III supplied by hand [also as in Norman copy]). (Lacking half-titles, some occasional spotting.) Contemporary half calf, marbled boards (joints cracked, cover of vol. 3 detached, inner hinges reinforced). Provenance : Dr. Morrell Wyman (presentation inscription to Dr. William J. Councilman; listed as donor on bookplate of:) Harvard University Medical School (inkstamp on verso of titles); Irwin J. Pincus, M.D. (his sale Christie's New York, 6 December 2004, lot 63). FIRST EDITION. The 54 plates in this work, of which 47 were meticulously hand-colored, are among the most beautiful illustrations of diseased organs. Most were drawn by Frederick Richard Say a distinguished portraitist whose portrait of Bright now hangs in the Royal College of Physicians of London. "In order to achieve the most poignant reproductions of his post-mortem material, Bright was probably required to bring Say to the autopsy room whenever a specimen of interest arose. Say presumably produced a water color image of the specimen on the spot which was subsequently copied by the engraver" (Fine, p. 779). Say's father William, who produced the majority of the plates, used mezzotint variously combined with line-engraving, stipple, and soft-ground etching to create the printed images. The first volume of Bright's series of case histories correlating clinical and pathological phenomena is most famous for its classic description of the complex of kidney disorders known as "Bright's disease." Bright was the first to distinguish between renal and cardiac edema, and the first to link renal edema and the presence of albumin in the urine with particular structural changes in the kidneys observed post-mortem. The second volume, divided into two parts, is entirely devoted to neuropathology, and contains detailed case histories illustrating brain tumors, hydrocephalus, ruptured intercranial aneurysm, hysteria, epilepsy, post-traumatic necrosis of the tips of the front and temporal lobes, and staining of the meninges in jaundice, as well as many other examples of congenital, neoplastic, infectious and vascular diseases of the brain. Fine, "Pathological specimens of the kidney examined by Richard Bright," Kidney International 29 (1986), pp. 779-783; Garrison-Morton 2285 & 4206; Goldschmid, pp. 126-127; Norman 341; Osler 1340; Peitzman, "Bright's disease and Bright's generation-toward exact medicine at Guy's Hospital," Bull. Hist. Med. 55 (1981), pp. 307-321; Waller 1460; Wellcome II, p. 239. (3)
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