OSLER PRESENTATION COPY.


ATKINSON, JAMES. 1759–1839. Medical Bibliography: A. and B. [York: Gazette-Office, 1833]. 4to (256 x 155 mm). Half calf. Top edge gilt. Cracking to leather at joints, chip to head of spine. Two small abrasions to front pastedown.PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY OSLER TO THOMAS MCCRAE. Thomas McCrae studied under Osler as an assistant resident at Johns Hopkins starting in 1895, and was later appointed an instructor in medicine. McCrae assisted Osler in editing the eighth edition of Principles and Practices of Medicine and went on to become its solo editor upon Osler's death in 1919. Atkinson's Medical Bibliography "is the most humorous bibliography of medical literature ever published. Atkinson, surgeon to the Duke of York and senior surgeon to York County Hospital, published this work when he was 74 years old. There is nothing in it to indicate that he ever intended to continue the work beyond the letter B" (Garrison-Morton 6754.1).