1895 Rare MEDICAL GYNACOLOGY OBSTETRICS * 1st Edition Colour Plates

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* * * Description CLINICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF DISEASES OF THE FALLOPIAN TUBES AND OF TUBAL GESTATION A SERIES OF DRAWINGS WITH DESCRIPTIVE TEXTAND HISTORIES OF THE CASESBYCHARLES J. CULLINGWORTH RIVINGTON, PERCIVAL AND CO. KING STREET, COVENT GARDEN LONDON1895. ~ THE FIRST EDITION ~ Calf backed boards, rubbed and worn and joints cracked but sound, library stamps to title page and plates, otherwise good clean condition. An octavo volume, it measures approximately 25cm (10") x 16cm (6�") x 2cm (�"). Pagination pp. x, [2], 75, [1], with and frontispiece and 14 plates (some coloured). Cullingworth, Charles James (1841-1908), gyn�cologist and obstetrician, son of Griffith Cullingworth, bookseller, by his wife Sarah Gledhill of Eddercliff, was born on 3 June 1841 at Leeds. Of Wesleyan stock, although he afterwards joined the Church of England, he was educated at Wesley College, Sheffield. On leaving school he was employed in his father's business, but on the latter's death in 1860 entered the Leeds School of Medicine (1861), and there took many prizes in anatomy and physiology, surgery and medicine. Whilst studying he served four years as an apprentice to a general practitioner in Leeds. He became M.R.C.S. in 1865, and licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries in 1866. After eighteen months as assistant in a country practice at Bawtry, near Doncaster, he entered the Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1867 as resident physician's assistant, and later was appointed resident medical officer. In 1869 he commenced private practice in Manchester, and from 1872 to 1882 was police surgeon. In 1873 he began his special work, on being appointed honorary surgeon to the St. Mary's Hospital for Women and Children at Manchester. In 1881 he graduated M.D. at Durham University, and then gradually relinquished private practice and became a consultant only. Meanwhile, appointed lecturer in medical jurisprudence at the Owens College in 1879, he made a pronounced success as a teacher. His lectures were invariably clear and comprehensive and were delivered with elocutionary power. In 1885 he was appointed to the chair of obstetrics and gyn�cology in the Owens College. He was secretary to the board of studies in medicine at Victoria University, Manchester, from 1883, when the university obtained in its supplemental charter power to confer degrees in medicine. Cullingworth worked hard for the Manchester Medical Society for nineteen years. He was honorary librarian (1872-8) and honorary secretary (1879-84). Actively interested in literature generally, he devoted much of his spare time to the library of the society and to the cataloguing of the books. At Manchester, too, he helped to found the 'Medical Chronicle', a monthly magazine, still published, which provides abstracts of good work appearing in medical journals. In 1888 he gave up his posts at Manchester to become obstetric physician at St. Thomas's Hospital, London. He remained on the active staff until 1904, staying on for three years beyond the usual age limit. He was then appointed consulting obstetric physician and made a governor of the hospital. On removing to London he was appointed visiting physician to the General Lying-in Hospital, York Road. In 1879 Cullingworth became a member of the Royal College of Physicians. In 1887 he was elected a fellow, and in 1902 he was the first obstetric physician to read the Bradshawe lecture, his subject being 'Intraperitoneal h�morrhage incident to ectopic gestation.' For many years he was active in the proceedings of the Obstetrical Society of London and contributed his best papers on strictly obstetrical and gyn�cological topics to its 'Transactions.' He was one of the founders, and always an active member of the committee which published the 'Journal of Obstetrics and Gyn�cology of the British Empire,' and he contributed some papers to it. During the last two years of his life he was editor. Cullingworth was prominent in the movement for securing the legal registration of midwives. In 1902 the m... read more

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