The London dissector, or System of dissection practised in the hospitals and lecture rooms of the metropolis : explained by the clearest rules, for the use of students : comprising a description of the muscles, vessels, nerves, and viscera of the human body, as they appear on dissection : with directions for their demonstration.

  • Hooper, Robert, 1773-1835.
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1809
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The London dissector, or System of dissection practised in the hospitals and lecture rooms of the metropolis : explained by the clearest rules, for the use of students : comprising a description of the muscles, vessels, nerves, and viscera of the human body, as they appear on dissection : with directions for their demonstration. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Philadelphia : Published by A. Finley and W. H. Hopkins : sold also by Hopkins & Earle and M. Carey, 1809.

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xxiii, 1 unnumbered page, 325 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : 1 illustration ; 19 cm (12mo)

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First American, from the last London edition :

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At head of title: Finley and Hopkins' edition
Attributed to Hooper in the Dict. nat. biog. and in Munk's Roll of the Royal Coll. of Phys
First published in London in 1804. "The Ruyschian art and method of making preparations to exhibit the structure of the human body" was published in 1802 in the fourth edition of Hooper's The anatomist's vade-mecum
"Printed by T. & G. Palmer."--Half title
Film 633 reel 51 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 51, no. 937).

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Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 937
Shaw & Shoemaker 17929

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1959. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm. Film number 00575 no. 3
Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1959. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm. Film 59-44 no. 1

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