CARDIAC SURGERY.


JEGER, ERNST. 1884-1915. Die Chirurgie der Blutgefässe und des Herzens. Berlin: August Hirschwald, 1913. Small 4to (245 x 156 mm). 231 illustrations. Black cloth, titled in gilt to spine.Provenance: John B. Murphy (bookplate).WITH: DAVIS, LOYAL. 1896-1982. J.B. Murphy: Stormy Petrel of Surgery. New York: J.P. Putnam's Sons, 1938. 8vo (218 x 140 mm). Publisher's blue cloth. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY DAVIS.FIRST EDITION OF PIONEERING BOOK ON HEART AND VASCULAR SURGERY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to John B. Murphy, "Herrn Professor Murphy, respektvollst überreicht vom Verfasser." Jeger was not yet 30 years old when he published this book, which provides both a thorough overview of the field of vascular surgery at the time, and discussions of his own experiments, techniques, and specially designed instruments. "Jeger was the first to advocate the bypass principle for management of peripheral aneurysms" (Garrison-Morton 2915.1). John B. Murphy was a pioneering surgeon whose accomplishments include the development of bone-grafting techniques and the reported successful suture of the femoral artery in 1896, "one of the earliest end-to-end anastomoses of arteries ever performed" (Garrison-Morton 2967).