LOT 213 The Pituitary Body and its Disorders. Philadelphia and London: J.P. Lippincott, 1912. CUSHING, HARVEY. 1869-1939.
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CUSHING, HARVEY. 1869-1939.
The Pituitary Body and its Disorders. Philadelphia and London: J.P. Lippincott, 1912. 8vo (244 x 161 mm). Colored photographic frontispiece and 319 photographic illustrations in text, including one large folding plate. Original red cloth, spine gilt lettered. Provenance: Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857-1935) president of the American Museum of Natural History (presentation inscription "Henry Fairfield Osborn with the regards of Harvey Cushing," bookplate); American Museum of Natural History (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, PRESENTATION COPY of "the work that established the field of clinical endocrinology" (Grolier Medicine). "The first clinical monograph on the hypophysis. Cushing, outstanding neurological surgeon of the 20th-century, added much to our knowledge of the pituitary body and its disorders. The above work includes a description of his own method of operating on the pituitary. He assumed that in diabetes insipidus the pituitary was involved" (Garrison-Morton). Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857-1935) graduated from Princeton, and later studied with John Call Dalton of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York and William H. Welch at Bellevue Hospital. In 1891 he accepted an appointment at the American Museum of Natural History and became president of that institution in 1908. RARE: according to American Book Prices Current only one other inscribed copy (the Norman copy) sold at auction in the past 40 years. Cushing Bibliography 1; Garrison-Morton 3896; Grolier Medicine 93; Norman 549; Waller 2252.
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