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Rainham, Kent: Meresborough, 1991. VG+. First edition. No d/w, (as published). PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on a publisher's bookplate on front paste-down. Inscription reads, 'For --- & ------/Derick 2.5.91'. Dr F G 'Derick' St Clair Strange (1911-2002) established the Orthopaedic Unit at the Hospital. Glazed pictorial covers. Profusely illustrated with photographs and illustrations. A well researched and authoritative history of this famous hospital now sadly closed. The hospital is believed to have been the oldest orthopaedic hospital in the world. Founded in 1791 by Dr J C Lettsom, a Quaker and one of the greatest philanthropists of the eighteenth century, it has provided treatment for the 'scrofulous poor' ever since; that is, for those with tuberculosis in the bones and joints and glands. Only in the last forty years did tuberculosis disappear from the wards, during which time patients with general orthopaedic, uro-genital, chest and…
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