Author: BALFOUR, GEORGE WILLIAM (1823-1903)
Title: Clinical lectures on diseases of the heart and aorta
Description: London : Adam and Charles Black 1898. Third Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong. Edition; 3rd ed. Physical description; xxi. 479 p. 2 leaves of plates : ill. (1 col.) ; 23 cm. Notes; Added title-page engraving with tissue guard. Includes bibliographical references and index. George William Balfour was a Scottish physician who was an authority on hear disease. He studied in Edinburgh and Vienna. and before taking his degree and licence in Medicine had obtained the Membership of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in 1843. In 1845 he became Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. of which body he was in 1861 elected Fellow. In 1845 he graduated as M.D. at St. Andrews University. Among his appointments he had held that of Senior Physician to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. where he was Consulting Physician. He was Physician to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children. the Royal Dispensary. Chalmers Hospital. Leith Hospital. and other institutions. He was the author of An Introduction to the Study of Medicine. Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Heart. The Senile Heart. and was translator and editor for the New Sydenham Society of Caspar's Handbook of Forensic Medicine. Subjects; Heart Diseases. Aorta. Aortic Diseases. Heart Diseases. Aorta - Diseases. Heart - Diseases - Diagnosis. Heart Murmurs. Lectures. Genre; Illustrated. Weight in Kg appr.:

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