A CENTURY OF MEDICINE SAN ANTONIO, THE STORY OF MEDICINE IN BEXAR COUNTY, TEXAS.
LIMITED EDITION OF 100 COPIES
Pat Ireland. Nixon
San Antonio: Privately printed, 1936. 405pp. Index. Bibliography. Appendix(3). Frontispiece. Illustration. Original white cloth over gilt stamped brown boards. First edition, limited edition of 100 numbered copies. SIGNED. The book shows tanning to the spine and minor wear. Overall, it is good (no dust jacket issued). Baird, Texas Medical History 178: “An excellent county medical history by Texas’ leading medical historian.” The first major work on Texas medicine by noted San Antonio physician-historian, Pat Ireland Nixon. It is considerably more scarce than the author’s better known work, The Medical Story of Early Texas, published a decade later. The limited edition of this book is rarely offered.