halsted william 1852 1922 (3 résultats)

Hardcover. Octavo, Two volumes (xliii, 586 pages ; vii, 603 pages). In Good plus condition. Spines are brown with gold print, raised bands. Boards in brown leather with gold stamped design. Text block has gilt edges, marbled endpapers, red ribbon markers. Spotting to edges. Illustrated: b&w plates (some folded). Introductory brochure laid in (32 pages). Originally published by the Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1924. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Multi-Volume Area. 1379004. FP New Rockville Stock. Special edition; Limited edition 7506/7500.

8vo. xvii, [1], 241, [1] pp. Frontis. portrait, 17 illus., fold-out family-tree diagram. Blue blind- and gilt-stamped cloth. Inscription: "To Jack Gibbon in appreciation of our interesting experiences in 'experimental surgery' 1930-1931. E.D.C." Very good. First edition. INSCRIBED BY EDWARD DELOS CHURCHILL TO JOHN HEYSHAM GIBBON, INVENTOR OF THE HEART-LUNG MACHINE. The unique inscription in this copy of MacCallum's biography of Halsted, may well refer to a watershed moment in cardiac surgery, that led to the development of technology and techniques that saved, over the past sixty years, millions, of lives. Gibbon was a research fellow working under Edward Delos Churchill in 1930-1931, and together they performed numerous experimental surgeries aimed at increasing survival rates for open heart surgery patients (Hurst, Conti, and Fye, Profiles in Cardiology, 2003). A review of Churchill's archival papers, at the Harvard University Library, show six correspondences with Gibbon, and in two of them Churchill refers to Gibbon as "Jack". PROVENANCE: Edward Delos Churchill (1895-1972) was a noted thoracic surgeon. John Heysham Gibbon, Jr. (1903-1973) is best known for inventing the heart-lung machine and pioneering many techniques in open heart surgery. Gibbon's impetus for devising the heart-lung machine stemmed from an emergency surgery he performed with Churchill at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1930. "In 1930 he found himself assisting Dr. Edward Churchill in an emergency pulmonary embolectomy. At that time the procedure was one of desperation as no patient in the U.S. had survived the removal of blood clots in open-heart surgery. As Dr. Gibbon recorded the patient's waning vital signs prior to the procedure he thought, 'If only we could remove the blood from her body by bypassing her lungs, and oxygenate it, then return it to her heart, we could almost certainly save her life.' Despite a successful removal of large clots from the patient's pulmonary artery, she never regained consciousness. This 'critical event' initiated Gibbon's determination to produce a heart-lung machine" (Thomas Jefferson University Digital Commons) â Â" Jefferson Univ. (web source).

1 page. Single-sided typed letter on Halsted's letterhead, verso holograph reply from Turkington. Fine. [Details on request]. LETTERS BY HALSTED ARE EXTREMELY RARE IN TODAY'S MARKET. The letter is typed on Halsted's letterhead bearing the address of his mansion at 1201 Eutaw Pl. in Baltimore, which Harvey Cushing once described as "a great, magnificent, cold stone house, full of rare old furniture, clocks, pictures and whatnot in topsy-turvy condition, cold as a stone and most unlivable" (Cushing in Michael Sragow). The letter reads: "My dear Mr. Turkington:/ I shall be greatly interested to note the result of the/ operation performed on you at the Johns Hopkins Hospital by Dr. McClure on the/ 7th of December, 1914./ Will it be convenient for you to meet me in my office/ on the fourth floor of the Surgical Building, Johns Hopkins Hospital, on/ Friday morning, March 18, at 10o'clock [sic]?// Very truly yours, Wm. Halsted, Surgeon-in-Chief." The letter is signed by Halsted with one holograph correctionâ Â"a vertical line diving "10" from "o'clock." The letter's verso reads, in Turkington's hand: "Dear sirsâ Â"/ The operation/ referred to was successful/ in every way./ Truly yours, Albert Turkington." Albert Turkington was a Methodist reverend and served as pastor of the St. Peter's Methodist Church in Oriole, MD from 1946-64 (Hall). The nature of his surgery is not public record. Hall, Marion. "The History of Oriole and Its Satellites." Oriole: 1964; Henry Ford Health System. "Roy D. McClure, M.D." n.d.: available on-line; Sragow, Michael. "'Genius on the Edge' brings Dr. William Stewart Halsted's life into the light." Baltimore Sun. 21 Mar 2010: available on-line. [review of: Dr. Gerald Imber, Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted, 2010].