HERRICK, JAMES B. 1861-1954.


Group of 7 offprints, and one first edition by Herrick, with two publications by Fye related to sudden coronary obstruction and acute myocardial infarction, comprising: "Certain popular erroneous notions concerning angina pectoris." In: JAMA 1910.* "Pain in disease of the heart." In: Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society 1911. * "Clinical features of sudden obstruction of the coronary arteries." In: Transactions Association of American Physicians, 1912. * "Clinical features of sudden obstruction of the coronary arteries." In: JAMA, 1912 * "Concerning thrombosis of the coronary arteries." In: Transactions of the Association of American Physicians, 1918. WILLIAM S. THAYER'S COPY WITH HIS SIGNATURE. * "An intimate account of my early experience with coronary thrombosis." In: American Heart Journal, 1944. * Memoirs of Eighty Years. Chicago: 1949. Cloth with dust jacket. Signed first edition * "Landmark Article: Clinical features of sudden obstruction of the coronary arteries. James B. Herrick [1912]." [Offprint from:] JAMA, 1983 * FYE, W. BRUCE. "Acute myocardial infarction: A historical summary." 1990, offprint. SIGNED * FYE, W. BRUCE, editor. "Classic papers on coronary thrombosis and myocardial infarction." Birmingham, AL: 1991. SIGNED AND WITH FYE BOOKPLATE.Herrick was one of the first physicians to describe myocardial infarction (heart attacks). His findings became widely known after the publication of his article in item 4, which is and "outstanding description of coronary thrombosis" (Garrison-Morton). However, looking back, in item 6, Herrick explains that it was in his earlier 1911 paper that he first introduced his ideas, "It is evident that, long before May, 1912, when I read my paper at the Association of American Physicians, I had become much surer of my ground, for, in May, 1911, at Des Moines, in the course of an address on 'Pain in Diseases of the Heart,' ... I devoted about 1,500 words to acute obstruction of the coronary artery ... The final paragraph is perhaps worth quoting, as it shows that my ideas at that time were pretty well crystallized." Garrison-Morton 2839.