CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION: A CENTERPIECE OF MODERN CARDIOLOGY.


Cournand, Andre; Dickinson W. Richards, and colleagues. Archive of 14 items by or about the pioneers of cardiac catheterization who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize (6 inscribed and signed by Cournand or Richards). Includes: 1) Cournand and Hilmert Ranges, Catheterization of the right auricle in man. 1941, pp. 462 466, IN: Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med. (volume 46), 724pp.; 2) Richards, Cournand, and others, Pressure in the right auricle of man, in normal subjects and in patients with congestive heart failure. 1941, pp. 218-221, IN: Trans. Assoc. Am. Phys. (volume 56), 392pp.; 3) Cournand and others, Double lumen catheter for intravenous and intracardiac blood sampling and pressure recording. 1944, pp. 73-75, IN: Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med. (volume 60), 404pp.; 4) Cournand and others, Cardiac Catheterization in Congenital Heart Disease. New York 1949, dw, 4to, 108pp.; 5) Cournand and others, L'insuffisance cardiaque chronique: Etudes physiopathologigues. Paris 1952, stiff wrappers, 262pp. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY COURNAND; 6) Les Prix Nobel en 1956. Stockholm 1957, stiff wrappers, 208pp. [With biographical sketches and speeches by Cournand, Richards, and Werner Forssmann, who shared the Nobel Prize]; 7) Richards, Medical Priesthoods and Other Essays. New York 1970, stiff wrappers, 140pp. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY RICHARDS; 8) Cournand, Dickinson Woodruff Richards: 1895-1973. 1974, offprint. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY COURNAND: "To Dr. Bruce Fye with best wishes, Andre Cournand"; 9) Cournand, Cardiac Catheterization: Development of the Technique, Its Contributions to Experimental Medicine, and Its Initial Applications in Man. Acta Medica Scandinavia. Suppl. 579. Uppsala 1975, stiff wrappers, 32pp. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY COURNAND: "To Dr. Bruce Fye with best wishes, Andre Cournand, Nov. 22, 1977"; 10) The scientist's code. 1976, offprint. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY COURNAND: "To my colleague Dr. W. Bruce Fye, With best wishes, Andre Cournand"; 11) Cournand, From Roots...to Late Budding: The Intellectual Adventures of a Medical Scientist. New York 1986, dw, 232pp. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY COURNAND; 12) Andre Cournand 1895-1988: Remarks Delivered at the Memorial Service. [New York] 1988, stiff wrappers, 31pp. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY COURNAND'S WIFE: "To a devoted friend and physician, with love, Beatrice [Berle Cournand]" with a TLS signed by her and three of Cournand's former colleagues; 13) J. Lequime, Andre Cournand (1895-1988): His role in the development of modern cardiology. 1988. offprint. INSCRIBED: "To Professor Bruce Fye with my kind regards, Professor Lequime"; 14) W. Bruce Fye, The Early History of Cardiac Catheterization in Humans. SIGNED unpublished manuscript (typescript), 1997, 26pp. All fine to very fine with the exception of item 3 (backstrip rubbed with a library name in gilt at the bottom of spine. No other institutional markings). An important archive documenting a centerpiece of modern cardiology, including Cournand and Ranges "Catheterization of the right auricle in man" (1941), Garrison-Morton 2871: "First investigations with the cardiac catheter as a clinical method of investigation. For his work in this field, Cournand in 1956 shared the Nobel Prize with Forssmann (Garrison-Morton 2858) and Richards (Garrison-Morton 2883.2)." Also, contains the first appearance of Cournand's "Double lumen catheter for intravenous and intracardiac blood sampling...," the first description of the "Cournand catheter." Five items are inscribed and autographed by Cournand, and one is inscribed and autographed by Richards.