"One Hundred and Fifty Years. From Tallow-Dip to Television." Reprinted from the New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 204, no. 24, June 11, 1931, pp. 1235-44. INSCRIBED BY HARVEY CUSHING TO WALTER R. BETT

CUSHING, Harvey

Verlag: 1931.

Beschreibung

29 pp. Original wrappers. Vertical creases. Good. First Edition. INSCRIBED BY HARVEY CUSHING TO WALTER R. BETT: "W. R. Bett/ with best regards/ H.C.". The ink has smeared on the "H" in Cushing's initials (see photos). With the pencil note in upper left corner of p. 1 by Walter R Bett: "E dono auctoris/ 20.VIII.31/ Walter R. Bett/ London", and Bett s small book label "W. R. Bett" on the lower left corner of p. 1 (see photos). Cushing Bibliography no. 295. The annual discourse before the Massachusetts Medical Society at the 150th reunion held in Boston, June 8-10, 1931. "His two lectures behind him Cushing cancelled all other speaking engagements until the Berne Congress save two: an address to the Massachusetts Medical Society (one of his less impressive discourses ["One hundred and fifty years. From tallow-dip to television." New England Journal of Medicine, 11 June 1931, 204, 1235-1244]). . ." (Fulton, Harvey Cushing, p. 605). Michael Bliss in his biography is less critical of this address: "Cushing warmed up for his European finale by giving a rich historical overview of American medicine, 'From Tallow-Dip to Television'. . . . He noted how the torch of medical leadership had passed to America, 'where foreign medical graduates now flock as our ambitious and favored graduates once flocked abroad [p. 22],' and he hoped that American medicine and American society would preserve the values that had worked in the past to lead to this greatness" (Bliss, Harvey Cushing, p. 467). ABOUT THE RECIPIENT Walter R. Bett: A very useful article is online and can be read for free: Nadeem Toodayan, " 'The Iniquity of Oblivion': Dr Walter Reginald Bett (1903-1968)", Osleriana, Vol. 1, July 2019, pp. 75-111. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 16876

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Titel: "One Hundred and Fifty Years. From ...

Verlag: 1931.

Einband: Soft cover

Zustand: Good

Auflage: 1st Edition