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CUSHING, Harvey (1869-1939). The Pituitary Body and its Disorders. Philadelphia and London: J.P. Lippincott, [1912].
8o (244 x 159 mm). Colored photographic frontispiece and 319 photographic illustrations in text, including one large folding plate. Original red cloth, spine gilt lettered. Provenance: Herbert McLean Evans (1882-1971), dedicatee (with presentation inscription by the author on front free endpaper: "Somewhat late, this ancient book is inscribed by its author [who as an emeritus professor knows far less about the subject than he thought he did in 1912 when an instructor] to his friend Herbert M. Evans [who at the time it was written was emerging from the old Hunterian (?) Laboratory at the J.H.M.S. to begin his notable career, in the course of which he has done more then anyone to elucidate obscurities in the subjects herein touched upon] with pride and affection. Harvey Cushing, New Haven Conn. August 8 1934." An ALS from Cushing to Evans, bookplate); F. Slater Jackson (bookplate); I. Maclaren Thompson (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, first issue, PRESENTATION COPY. "The first clinical monograph on the hypophysis. Cushing, outstanding neurological surgeon of the present century, added much to our knowledge of the pituitary body and its disorders. The above work includes a description of his own method of operating on the pituitary. He assumed that in diabetes insipidus the pituitary was involved" (Garrison-Morton). The recipient, Herbert M. Evans, isolated and purified the growth hormone of the anterior pituitary in 1945. Cushing Society 1; Garrison-Morton 3896; Waller 2252; Norman 549.
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FIRST EDITION, first issue, PRESENTATION COPY. "The first clinical monograph on the hypophysis. Cushing, outstanding neurological surgeon of the present century, added much to our knowledge of the pituitary body and its disorders. The above work includes a description of his own method of operating on the pituitary. He assumed that in diabetes insipidus the pituitary was involved" (Garrison-Morton). The recipient, Herbert M. Evans, isolated and purified the growth hormone of the anterior pituitary in 1945. Cushing Society 1; Garrison-Morton 3896; Waller 2252; Norman 549.