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2 leaves, 175 pp. Later 1/4-cloth and marbled boards, with original wrappers bound in. The front wrapper has been trimmed and mounted (see photo). There are two blank pieces missing along margins of rear wrapper (I can send a photo, upon request). Very Good. First Edition. INSCRIBED BY JOHN ALEXANDER TO EDWARD DELOS CHURCHILL: "To/ Edward D. Churchill/ with affectionate regards/ John Alexander/ 19 April 1932." With Edward Delos Churchill's bookplate. Garrison-Morton 3228: "Describes (p. 31) first cure of tuberculosis by removal of lung apex." "Aside from some primitive and unsuccessful attempts, Tuffier seems to have been the first successfully to extirpate part of a lung for tuberculosis. . . . In his comprehensive lecture before the Twelfth International Congress of Medicine in Moscow in 1897 [offered here]. . ., Tuffier develops the whole subject of pneumonectomy, which he amplified into his book, Chirurgie du poumon . . ." (Bloomfield, Bibliography of Internal Medicine, Communicable Diseases, p. 220. ). Naef, Story of Thoracic Surgery, p. 22. Meade, History of Thoracic Surgery, pp. 40-41, 146, 155. Hochberg, Thoracic Surgery before the 20th Century, pp. 353, 357, 376-77. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 14062
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