Antique 1896 HARVARD MEDICAL LECTURE NOTES Medicine HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT BOOK

Description

Up for sale is this antique 1896-1897 manuscript medical book belonging to Richard D. Small.  The book contains lecture medical school notes from a course taught by R. H. (Reginald Herber) Fitz.  The book contains approximately 173 hand written pages on the rectos only. The first 152 pages are numbered and are followed by 2 blank leaves, 21 unnumbered handwritten pages, and 4 blank leaves at the rear.  The pages all have two punch holes at the top margin and the notes appear to have been bound later by the writer.  The book is overall in good condition with just some minor signs of wear and age.  The binding is good and sound.  The book measures approximately 7 5/8 inches by 4 7/8 inches.  Please look at all of the photos to further note the condition.
From Wikipedia:
Reginald Heber Fitz (1843–1913) was an American physician known for his research on abdominal disorders.
Reginald Heber Fitz was born in 1843 in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He graduated in 1864 (M.D., 1868) from Harvard University. He also studied in Vienna, Berlin, and Paris.
He taught at his alma mater, Harvard University. He was instructor in pathological anatomy in 1870–1873, assistant professor in 1873–1878, and professor from 1878 to 1908. In the latter year, he became professor emeritus.
In 1886, he published “Perforating Inflammation of the Vermiform Appendix; With Special Reference to Its Early Diagnosis and Treatment”. This groundbreaking paper provided analysis of 466 cases of abdominal disorders that had previously been variously diagnosed and showed that they all involved a diseased appendix. He also introduced the term appendicitis. Dozens of names had previously been used for what had been thought to be a variety of diseases.
He also served as physician to the Boston Dispensary in 1871–1882 and to the Massachusetts General Hospital from 1887 to 1908. In 1894, he was president of the Association of American Physicians.
He died in 1913.