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Hardcover, bound in tan top-grain cowhide with all edges gilt, raised spine lettered in gold and covers brass die-stamped in gold. 226 pages. Index. Additional refinements include bound in silk ribbon marker and specially commissioned marbled end-papers designed by Jeanette Smith. This special limited facsimile was prepared from the first edition of 1825 furnished to the Publisher courtesy of The Francis A. Countwat Library of Medicine. First edition thus. First reprinted by Gryphon Editions a decade earlier in the Classics of Cardiology Library series, the present edition is much more difficult to find and at the time of this listing is the only such copy available online. Original subscriber’s personalized book-plate affixed to verso of the second blank leaf, indicating this is copy 921 of an unspecified limitation.. “An Introduction to the Use of the Stethoscope by Irish physician William Stokes was a pioneering English-language text that popularized René Laënnec’s newly invented monaural stethoscope. The book taught early auscultation and linked internal chest sounds to specific organ pathologies.” [AI Summary]. A clean, unread and pristine copy; gift quality and like new.