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CARREL, ALEXIS; and LINDBERGH, CHARLES AUGUSTUS. The Culture of Organs. 110 text illustrations on 38 plates. xix, [3], 221, [1] pages. 8vo, 232x155 mm, original cloth, spine ends lightly rubbed; later owner's signature on front free endpaper, contents otherwise unmarked and clean. New York, 1938
first edition. Carrel received the 1912 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his pioneering experimental work in vascular surgery, organ transplantation, and cell culture. This book resulted from his collaboration during the 1930s with the aviator Charles Lindbergh toward the goal of cultivating whole organs; it reprints Lindbergh's 1935 paper on the perfusion pump he developed with Carrel for this purpose. "His pump maintained a sterile, pulsating circulation of fluid through excised organs, and enabled Carrel to keep organs such as the thyroid gland and kidney alive and functioning. It is a forerunner of the modern heart pump"--Garrison-Morton 858.1 note. DSB III, 91.
