Border Lines of Knowledge in Some Provinces of Medical Science. An Introductory Lecture, Delivered before the Medical Class of Harvard University, November 6th, 1861.

80 pp. 12mo. A lecture on medicine by the Parkman Professor of Anatomy and Physiology, who was also a member of the Fireside Poets and author of The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. He was an equally significant figure in the medical world and in literary circles, introducing numerous reforms to the health field, and rubbing elbows with the likes of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and James Russell Lowell. He would go on to write Medical Essays 1842-1882 (not included here), which has been called "[t]he most important American book dealing with the history of medicine up to its day" (Garrison-Morton 6390).