Hodgkin, Thomas

"On some morbid appearances of the absorbent glands and spleen" from Medico-Chirurgical Transactions published by the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, vol. 17, pages 68-114 [caption title]. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1832



8vo (8 1/4 x 4 7/8 in.; 210 x 124 mm). Modern quarter cloth and boards, in a black cloth slipcase.

Meyer Friedman (bookplate, not the copy in his sale)

Garrison-Morton 3762; not in Norman, Cushing, Osler or Waller

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First edition of a classic in oncology, the rare first full description of the simultaneous enlargement of the spleen and lymphatic glands, called (in 1865) by its present name of Hodgkin's disease. Hodgkin studied under Laennec in Paris and received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Edinburgh. At the age of twenty-seven he was appointed both a lecturer of morbid anatomy at Guy's Hospital and curator of its museum. Hodgkin was the first to describe tumorous enlargement of the lymph nodes, spleen, and liver as a distinct pathology.