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CUTLER, Elliott Carr (1888-1947) and BECK, Claude Schaeffer (1894-1971). Surgery of the heart and pericardium. Offprint of chapter IV from: Nelson's loose leaf surgery. New York: Thos. Nelson & Sons, 1927.
8o (243 x 169 mm). Text illustrations and half-tones. Half dark green calf, cloth boards, gilt-lettered spine. Provenance: Cutler's copy (stamped signature on front free endpaper; tipped in letters to Cutler from Harvey Cushing (undated) and William W. Keen (1837-1932), dated 24 February 1928, both praising Cutler's work. Cushing's letter reads "Dear Elliott, Chap IV of Nelson is simply A++; a great credit to you and Beck! What a lot of work it has meant I can well appreciate when I look back on a chapter I once delivered for Dr. Keen with much pain and high forceps. Nothing so good about the surgery of the heart has ever been put together. I'm proud to know you, and deeply pleased to have this inscribed copy hot from the press. Is Beck going to Pekin? I understand he is being considered. Affy., H.C. Love to Carol and the children. Feby. ix. P.S. I'm having a beastly time with my legs and think I'll get you and Cannon to remove my entire sympathetic nervous system some day. Cats don't seem to mind it.").
FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. "Cutler and Beck were both pioneers in the development of cardiac surgery; Cutler performed the first successful section of the mitral valve for relief of mitral stenosis, and Beck was the first to perform a cardio-omentopexy" (Norman 563).
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FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. "Cutler and Beck were both pioneers in the development of cardiac surgery; Cutler performed the first successful section of the mitral valve for relief of mitral stenosis, and Beck was the first to perform a cardio-omentopexy" (Norman 563).