VIRCHOW, RUDOLF.

Die sections-Technik im Leichenhause des Charité-Krankenhauses, mit besonderer Rücksicht auf gerichtsärztliche Praxis.

Berlin, Hirschwald, 1876.

8vo. Uncut in contemporary blank blue boards. With light marginal brownspotting, otherwise a nice copy. (2), 109 pp. + 1 folded plate followed by 7 blank leaves with annotations in pencil. 

First separate printing of Virchow’s manual on his autopsy technique in which he here systematizes the conduct of post-mortem examinations, describing the  opening of the body and the individual removal and examination of organs - the basis of the influential “Virchow method” of autopsy.

Order-nr.: 62894