Leucocythemia:

Damon, Howard F. (Howard Franklin), 1833-1884.

Boston : John Wilson and son, 1864 [c1863].

Second edition: Boston, De Vries, Ibarra, & Co.; London, John Churchill; Leipzig, Wilh. Engelmann; Paris, V. Masson et fils, 1864 [c1863].

Description : x, [1], 93 p. ; ill.: table, 4 plates ; 24 cm.

Photographs : 4 mounted albumens.

Photographer : William Hussey.

Subject : Blood — Leucocythemia, Leukæmia. [Including pseudoleukemia.]

Notes :

• Author caption: "HOWARD FRANKLIN DAMON, A.M., M.D., FELLOW OF THE MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEMBER OF THE BOSTON SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL IMPROVEMENT; MEMBER OF THE BOSTON SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL OBSERVATION; ONE OF THE PHYSICIANS, AND SUPERINTENDENT, OF THE BOSTON DISPENSARY."
• Graduate of Harvard, 1858.
• Physician and superintendent of the Boston dispensary in 1862-1864.
• Author of the first American dermatology text illustrated with photographs.
• Index Medicus: 10800791270, 10305881050.

The photographs which accompany this Essay were taken from nature by Mr. WILLIAM HUSSEY, of this city ; and are exceedingly beautiful and valuable portraits of disease. The figures of the blood-corpuscles were also photographed by him from the original drawings.