Cushing, Pituitary Body and its Disorders, 1912

The Pituitary Body and its Disorders. Clinical States Produced by Disorders of the Hypophysis Cerebri. By Harvey Cushing, M.D. Moseley Professor of Surgery, Harvard University; Surgeon-In-Chief, the Peter Bent Bingham Hospital; Formerly Associate Professor of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University. An Amplification of the Harvey Lecture for December, 1910. 319 Illustrations. Philadelphia & London. J. B. Lippincott Company. 1912. 
 
Red cloth over boards with gold text on spine. Corners mildly bumped. Mild wear at head and tail of spine. Color frontis. Folding plate of radiograph of a hand of a patient with acromegaly, reproduced to life size. Numerous additional figures in black and white, including radiographs, photographs, and photomicrographs. Hinges intact. Clean and bright throughout. A very good copy. 341 pages. 
 
Harvey Williams Cushing (1869 – 1939) 
 
“The first clinical monograph on the hypophysis. Cushing, outstanding neurological surgeon of the early 20th 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.” (G-M 4883.1) 
 
“Born in Cleveland, Ohio, and educated at Harvard and Yale, taught successively at Johns Hopkins University, Harvard, and Yale, becoming the world's leading neurological surgeon. His productivity was enormous--in surgery, in research, and in publication. In addition, he was a distinguished collector of medical books which he bequeathed to Yale. The physiology of the hypophysis, its diseases, and their treatment, were early and life-long interests of Cushing. His studies of this subject, as of most anything he touched, were exhaustive, and the textual matter, case histories, and illustrations in this pioneer work have scarcely been improved upon to this day.” (Heirs 2269)