SAUNDERS, William. A Treatise on the Structure, Economy and Diseases of the Liver: Together with all Enquiry into Properties and Component Parts of the Bile and Biliary Concretions. Pub. LONDON: Sold by G. G. and J. Robinson, Pater-noster-row; J. Murray, Fleet Street; J. Johnson, St Pauls Church-yard; and T. Cox, St. Thomas's Street, Borough, 1793. First edition. 232pp. Saunders was a physician to Guy's Hospital and to the Prince Regent. In this book he was the first English physician to observe that some forms of cirrhosis of the liver, there was first enlargement and then contraction. Older rebinding with likely original leather boards and replaced spine. Occasional foxing in clean text. (205x128mm)