Rab and his friends
By: by John Brown
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: T. Constable and Co.; Hamilton, Adams, and Co.
Published: 1859
Place of publication: Edinburgh; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: Dogs; Rab (Dog)
Description: Contains a vivid description of a mastectomy as it may have been witnessed by the physician-author in the pre-anesthetic clinics of his famous surgical teacher, James Syme. Rab is the devoted pet of a man whose wife dies following surgery; he dies shortly afterwards; Rab refuses to eat, becomes hostile, and is killed.
Notes: Title vignette.

"Extracted from 'Horæ subsecivæ Locke and Sydenham, with other occasional papers'"--T.p. verso.