Place_Pub: Baltimore MD: The Johns Hopkins Press 1950. fair to good. 103 wraps illus. footnotes biographical index chapter notes references cover edges & spine discolored some soil rear cover. Edited by Owsei Temkin. This special issue in memory of William H. Welch contains articles on "The European Background of the Young Dr. Welch" by Owsei Temkin; "Comments on the Relation of Dr. Welch to the Rise of Microbiology in America" by Barnett Cohen; "Dr. Welch and Medical History" by Richard Harrison Shryock; and "Carl Julius Salomonsen: Reminiscences of the Summer Semester 1877 at Breslau" translated by C. Lilian Temkin. The two main articles are on "The Historical Relationship between the Concept of Tumor and the Ending-oma" by Harry Keil; and "The Death of President Garfield" by Stewart A. Fish. This last article pp. 378-392 is the report of a single surgical case Garfield's death twelve weeks after his fatal injury by a bullet fired from the gun of an insane killer which gives an excellent view of the status of medicine and surgery in the United States in 1881. The article contains eight drawings of pathological specimens of Garfield's autopsy and also discusses the medical and mental history of the assassin Charles J. Guiteau. The "Notes and Comments" section of the journal contains the transcript of a letter written on 8 July 1881 by Simon Newcomb on the possibility of locating President Garfield's bullet through electromagnetism as well as comments on this letter by Owsei Temkin. The Johns Hopkins Press paperback
Place_Pub: Baltimore MD: The Johns Hopkins Press 1957. fair to good. 97 wraps illus. footnotes references cover edges and spine discolored text slightly darkened. Edited by Owsei Temkin. Contains an article pp. 162-171 on "The Famous Harrison Case and Its Repercussions" by Linden F. Edwards on the disappearance of the body of John Scott Harrison son of President William Henry Harrison and father of President Benjamin Harrison from its supposedly secure grave and its discovery in a chute in the Medical College of Ohio. Also contains articles on the concept of cerebral localization in the 19th century the diseases of domestic animals yellow fever Benjamin Franklin and the rise of free treatment of the poor by the medical profession of Philadelphia and others. The Johns Hopkins Press paperback
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