Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 111

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
Intracranial Tumours. Notes upon a Series of Two Thousand Verified Cases with Surgical-Mortality Percentages Pertaining Thereto. 111 text illustrations. 8vo, original cloth; owner's signature on front free endpaper; dust jacket (missing a few pieces from top and bottom edges, reinforced with cellotape in several places). Springfield, 1932

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first edition. "Cushing's operating technique reduced the mortality rate dramatically in intracranial surgery. This was his last published report on the statistical results of brain tumors as a whole"--Garrison-Morton 4900. Cushing Society 16; Fulton, Harvey Cushing, pages 604-05 ("a significant landmark, since it represents an over-all report on Cushing's life work").