HERRICK, JAMES. 1861-1954.


Archive of 20 offprints, mainly on coronary artery disease, comprising: 1. "Clinical features of sudden obstruction of the coronary arteries." 1912. 2. "Thrombosis of the coronary arteries." 1919. * "Acute obstruction of the coronary artery." 1925. * "Syphilis of the aorta." 1926.* "On the combination of angina pectoris and severe anemia." 1927. * "Some of the more favorable features of heart disease." 1927. * "William Heberden." 1928. * "Comments on the treatment of heart disease." 1928. * "Atypical features of acute coronary occlusion." 1929. INSCRIBED AND AUTOGRAPHED, part of inscription trimmed off by binder, not affecting signature. * "The coronary artery in health and disease." From Harvey Lectures, 1930-1931 * "The coronary artery in health and disease." From American Heart Journal, 1931. * "Common errors in the treatment of heart disease." 1931. INSCRIBED AND AUTOGRAPHED * "Allan Burns: 1781-1813. Anatomist, surgeon and cardiologist." 1935. * "On mistaking other diseases for acute coronary thrombosis." 1938. * "Some features of present day diagnosis." 1938. * "Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud and his contributions to cardiology." 1940. * "A note concerning the long neglect of Auenbrugger's inventum novum." 1943. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED. * "An intimate account of my early experience with coronary thrombosis." 1944. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED. The above 18 offprints bound together in black cloth by William B. Bean.19. James B. Herrick, Memories of Eighty Years. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the free front endpaper. First edition. 20. A xerographic copy of a letter from Herrick to Bean explaining that he will send Bean "some of the reprints requested." 1 p, November 3, 1937. 21. BEAN, WILLIAM, Photograph Signed, inscribed: "For Bruce Fye, with good wishes. Bill Bean. June 1978."22. "The William B. Bean Festschrift." In: Archives of Internal Medicine, volume 134, number 5, November, 1974. Original pictorial wrappers. SIGNED by one of the contributors ("Irving A. Beck") on the front wrapper.23. FYE, W. BRUCE. Acute myocardial infarction: A historical summary. New York: Elsevier Science Publishing Company, 1990. Publisher's printed wrappers. SIGNED on front wrapper.Herrick was credited with the discover of sickle-shaped red blood cells in 1910, and was the first to describe sickle-cell disease. In 1912 he published a breakthrough article in the Journal of the American Medical Association describing the symptoms of myocardial infarction and linking the attacks to coronary thrombosis. He was also a pioneer in promoting the use of the electrocardiogram in the diagnosis of myocardial infarction. William B. "Bill" Bean (1899-1989) was the first president of the American Osler Society. He became a good friend (and father figure) to Bruce Fye through their involvement in the American Osler Society and the American Association for the History of Medicine.