On Naevi and Miscellaneous Subjects

London: H.K. Lewis & Co. Ltd., 1952. First edition.

COLLECTION OF ILLUSTRATED ESSAYS ON VARIOUS SYNDROMES BY NOTED BRITISH DERMATOLOGIST ASSOCIATED WITH NUMEROUS EPONYMS--SIGNED BY HIM, WTH ALS TO DR. JOHN KRAFCHUK.

10 inches tall hardcover, yellow paper covered boards, printed cover, with hand stamp lower right corner of John D. Krafchuk, M.D. Inscribed and signed on front flyleaf "with kind regards and best wishes, F. Parkes Weber"; 72 pp with numerous photographic balck & white figures. Covers lightly browned, spine edges worn, binding tight, very good in custom archival mylar cover. LAID IN: ALS (dictated/signed) from author to Prof. Krafchuk, also return address and handwritten note indicating letter from FPW. Contents include: Osler's love for obscure diseases; The humming man; Death and doctors: Epigrams and art in regard to the relation of death to the medical sciences.

FREDERICK PARKS WEBER (1863 – 1962) was an English dermatologist and author who practiced medicine in London. Weber was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge. He subsequently studied medicine at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and abroad at Vienna and Paris. Returning to England, he worked (since 1894) at the German Hospital, Dalston (London), later he became House Physician and House Surgeon at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. He was subsequently House Physician at Brompton Hospital and Physician at Mount Vernon Hospital. Weber contributed over 1200 medical articles and wrote 23 books over a period of 50 years. In 1922, he, along with his wife, published a philosophical medical tome called Aspects of Death and Correlated Aspects of Life in Art, Epigram, and Poetry. Weber was a prodigious describer of new and unique dermatological terms. A comprehensive collection of Weber's papers is kept by the London Wellcome Library. Eponyms ascribed to him include Klippel–Trénaunay–Weber syndrome, Pfeifer–Weber–Christian disease, Osler–Weber–Rendu disease, Sturge–Weber syndrome, Weber–Cockayne syndrome, and Parkes Weber syndrome.

PROVENANCE: JOHN DAMION KRAFCHUK was an American dermatologist.