Outstanding Autographed Letter Signed about a groundbreaking medical procedure
Cheraw, SC: 1852. 8 pages (front and back), each two-page spread measuring 8 x 10 inches, Cheraw, South Carolina, September 25, 1852. In this letter to Dr. Rufus Woodward, Dr. Kollock discusses pioneering the use of the Bozeman Button Suture in the first successful treatment of a Lacerated Perineum and also provides a sad glimpse of the great doctors' racial attitudes, in very small part: "...I was called a few weeks since to a patient who had sustained an exterior..... More