CARDIAC SURGERY.


BAILEY, CHARLES. 1910-1993. Archive of 28 items on the development of cardiac surgery, including: Typed Manuscript signed and inscribed ("Charles P. Bailey"), entitled "Closed Commissurotomy for Mitral Stenosis," unpublished, 11 pp, c.1981, inscribed on the first page, "Dr. Bruce Fye: See how one can lose priority because publication is delayed! Charles P. Bailey"; WITH: Surgery of the Heart. Philadelphia: Lea and Febiger, 1955. Original cloth. Inscribed "To Dr. Myron Prinzmetal. One of the great investigative cardiologists of all time. With my very best, Charles P. Bailey." Bedford 947;WITH: 7 offprints inscribed by Bailey, 2 offprints signed by Bailey, and 16 related items as follows: 1) Closed commissurotomy for mitral stenosis. Unpublished original typewritten manuscript (as above) 2) The surgical management of mitral stenosis (Mitral commissurotomy). Xerographic copy from Diseases of the Chest (April 1949), INSCRIBED-SIGNED: "To Dr. Bruce Fye: This was my first publication on M.S. Charles P. Bailey"; 3) Xerographic copy of a typewritten manuscript, The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis (mitral commissurotomy) A review after forty years. Submitted to a journal in September 1989 but not published; 4) Xerographic copy of TLS from Bailey to Cecile Bosher, February 18, 1993, 5 pages. Bailey provides autobiographical material and a summary of his approach to mitral valve surgery. A very brief excerpt from this letter appears in Westaby and Bosher, Landmarks in Cardiac Surgery (Oxford 1997) 43-44; 5) The surgical treatment of acquired heart disease, 1951, offprint. INSCRIBED-SIGNED: "To Dr. Bruce Fye, See how 'mad' one can be! Charles P. Bailey"; 6) Surgery of the mitral valve, 1952, offprint. SIGNED; 7) Congenital interatrial communications: clinical and surgical considerations with a description of a new surgical technique: atrio-septo-pexy, 1952, offprint. INSCRIBED-SIGNED: "To Dr. Bruce Fye: This is a really good technique - and pretty safe. The advent of open-heart surgery precluded its extensive use. Charles P. Bailey"; 8) Mitral commissurotomy through the right thoracic approach: Technique and indications, 1954, offprint; 9) Surgery of the Heart. Philadelphia, 1955. Very fine. (as above); 10) The 'right' approach to the problem of mitral stenosis, 1956, offprint. INSCRIBED-SIGNED: "Dr. Bruce Fye: Isn't this the 'right' way to approach the mitral valve? Look at figure 338C. Charles P. Bailey"; 11) Recent significant developments in intracardiac surgery, 1956, offprint; 12) TIME magazine issue (March 25, 1957) with color cover portrait of Bailey in scrub suit. The issue contains a long article on heart surgery, described as "Surgery's New Frontier," (pp. 66-77) that includes 15 separate color photographs of heart operations and the surgeons performing them; 13) Bailey, Surgery of the Heart, IN: Ciba Symposia (Sept-Oct. 1958. pp. 131-165), stiff wrappers. Frank Netter contributed 14 full-page color illustrations (plus the cover); 14) Ten years progress toward the complete correction of mitral stenosis, 1959, offprint. INSCRIBED-SIGNED: "To Dr. Bruce Fye - See what a little experience can lead to. Charles P. Bailey'; 15) Revascularization of the ischemic posterior myocardium, 1967, offprint. SIGNED; 16) Successful internal mammary-coronary arterial anastomosis using a 'minivascular' suturing technic, 1968, offprint. INSCRIBED-SIGNED: "To Dr. Bruce Fye, How about this for an early effort? Charles P. Bailey"; 17) Successful internal mammary-coronary arterial anastomosis using a 'minivascular' suturing technic, 1968, offprint. INSCRIBED-SIGNED (by Bailey's coauthor): "The internal mammary-coronary bypass performed on Feb. 8, 1968 by us, Terose Hirose" (coauthor); 18) Revascularization of the myocardium, 1968, offprint; 19) The history of myocardiac revascularization, c. 1970, offprint of book chapter, SIGNED; 20) Reconstruction of the mitral valve with autologous tissue, 1970, offprint. INSCRIBED-SIGNED: "To Bruce Fye: This is a still more advanced presentation of mitral valve surgery. I actually did do those reconstructive procedures with autologous fascia lata. It tends to harden up with the passage of time so it had best be used only to 'lengthen' the shortened, calcific, or shrunken mural leaflet, Charles P. Bailey"; 21) Direct coronary arterial suture, 1972, offprint; 22) Mitral reconstruction with commissural cusp of fascia lata, 1973, offprint; 23) Reconstruction of the mitral valve by creation of a "commissural cusp" 1974, offprint; 24) Anthony Dobell, Rival trailblazers [Charles Bailey and Dwight Harken]: The origins of successful closed valvular surgery, 1996, offprint SIGNED; 25) L. Gonzalez-Lavin, Charles P. Bailey and Dwight E. Harken: The dawn of the modern era of mitral valve surgery, 1992, offprint. INSCRIBED-SIGNED; 26) T. Treasure and A. Hollman, The surgery of mitral stenosis 1898-1948: Why did it take 50 years to establish mitral valvotomy? offprint, SIGNED (Hollman); 27) Allen Weisse, Charles P. Bailey, offprint; 28) The Medic: Hahnemann Medical College [Yearbook] 1932. Ex-library. Extremities of binding worn.An extraordinary archive, including a fine association copy of Bailey's classic 1955 book on heart surgery. Bailey, in his senior year medical school yearbook (item 28), is described: "Originality, enthusiasm, individuality ... Hardly had he shaken hands with the circulatory system before an artificial heart and aorta had scrambled forth from his nimble brain. So far no surgeon has been found with sufficient intrepidity to do the transplantation, so Charlie will probably have to do it himself." "The modern era of mitral valve surgery began at the end of the 1940s in Philadelphia with Charles P. Bailey ..." Gonzalez-Levin (1992). See also S. L. Johnson, The history of cardiac surgery, 1896-1955 (Baltimore, 1970), pp 93-99, and Westaby and Bosher, Landmarks in Cardiac Surgery (1997), pp 43-44, 146-148. Items 15 and 16 refer to an important innovation in the surgical treatment of coronary artery disease: "The major advance of 1968 was the implementation of internal mammary grafting by several groups ... Bailey was the first to perform the procedure that year" (Mueller, Rosengart and Isom, "The history of surgery for ischemic heart disease," Ann. Thorac. Surg. 63 (1997): 869-878. Garrison-Morton 10654 (item 2) and Garrison-Morton 10655 (items 16 and 17).