The Classics of Medicine Library, from Gryphon editions books are fully bound in leather, with the spines hubbed in the fine European binding tradition. Only acid free paper is used to ensure against disintegration for future generations. The page edges are gilded to resist damage from humidity and dust. Each volume has marbleised endleaves and a permanent satin ribbon marker ensures easy reference. For fifty years Gryphon has been publishing facsimile reproductions of classic books

Limited edition leather bound book, with booklet of Notes From The Editor and Medicine Library letter with the limited edition number of 706 and Original Invoice

Selected Readings in the history of Physiology

John Farquhar Fulton

Special Edition 2006, originally published 1930

"Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt (1836-1925), a "spiritual aristocrat of medicine," was an outstanding person and a remarkable physician who helped medicine become a modern profession. Members of the Classics of Medicine Library will nod knowingly when reminded that this very forward-thinking clinician was a devoted historian of medicine.

Allbutt's On the Use of the Ophthalmoscope is not his only great classic. Medical historians also point to his GREEK MEDICINE IN ROME (1921), a towering work of scholarship. Garrison and Morton, speaking of GREEK MEDICINE IN ROME, refer to its author as "a great literary stylist and add that E. A. Underwood "described him as the most learned and distinguished physician of the last hundred years."

GREEK MEDICINE IN ROME contains the seventeen lectures on the history of medicine that Clifford Allbutt delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in London in 1909-1910 as well as eight additional essays and a useful index. Thus this generous volume ranges from the Greeks and Romans to a look at medical education in the fifteenth century to an appraisal of medicine in 1800 to conjectures on what medicine was to become in the twentieth century.

With their wealth of Allbutt's "ever-graceful and thoughtful writings, the pages of this classic offer many hours of enjoyable and profitable reading."

Measures 8.9" ( 22.5cms) x 6.4" (16.cms)

317 pages

This is in excellent condition and the binding is tight, possibly unread. 

I have many of these listed, and they are all pre-owned so wont be mint, but unless I have specifically stated, they will be free from  any obvious flaws,and most of these look as new

I combine postage and I post daily, this will be sent tracked. For Uk buyers, no extra shipping charges for any extra subsequent books to be sent at the same time. I will refund the postage if already paid for. For international sales, please message me and I will give you a quote based on the weight and destination 

These will be packed well