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The Evil Eye Thanatology and Other Essays. Roswell Park, M.D., LL.D. (Yale), Boston: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press. 1912, First Edition. 380 p., 7.25 x 5 , 12mo. In fair condition. Dark green cloth boards normally scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Head and tail of spine bumped. Gilt lettering lightly dulled, but overall bright and clean. Top edge sprayed black (moderately dulled). Newspaper clippings pasted-on to front paste-down & end-page: Dr. Roswell Park, Found Unconscious by Son, Dies Within Half Hour. Previous ownership blind stamps found on front end-page & dedication page: Dr. Edward H. Drozeski. Erie, Penna. Front gutter split at title page with some binding exposed. Binding intact. Please see photos. Roswell Park (1852 1914) was an American physician and cancer researcher, best known for starting Gratwick Research Laboratory in 1898, which is now known as Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. September, 1901, President William McKinley, not even a year into his second term, was giving a speech at the Temple of Music on the Exposition grounds when Leon Czolgosz came from the crowd and shot him twice at point-blank range. McKinley was taken to a hospital on the fairgrounds. Efforts were made to contact Park, but he was in the middle of a neck dissection at Niagara Falls Memorial Hospital. As described years later by Park's son, the messenger ran into the operation room and told Park that he was needed immediately. Park is claimed to have replied "Don't you see, I can't leave. I am in the middle of a case even if it were for the President of the United States?"; the messenger replied, "Doctor, it is for the President of the United States." Park proceeded to finish the operation. Despite the importance of the situation, Park was only able to get to the exposition hospital via a train. The train engine and coal car sent to Niagara Falls to pick him up and return to Buffalo held the record time between the two points at that time. Park arranged for some nurses from the exposition to look over McKinley at the Milburn home until nurses from the army could arrive. Despite some promising results McKinley died in the Milburn home. First Edition. Gift quality. COLN1912ABDH 08/24 - HK2023. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers COLN1912ABDH
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