Neurosurgery of Infancy and Childhood
- SIGNED Cloth binding
- Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1954
Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1954. First edition.
FIRST EDITION OF THE WORLD'S FIRST TEXTBOOK ON PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGERY.
Ten inches tall hardcover, tan cloth binding with red embossed neuron to cover, color frontispiece photos of neurosurgical lesions, i-xvii, 456 pp, 381 figures,[1]. Light wear to cover edges, signature of "Forrest L. Johnson M.d., 3/31/54" to front paste-down, otherwise unmarked. Very good in custom archival mylar cover.
FRANC DOUGLAS INGRAHAM (1898–1965) was a pioneer in the development of pediatric neurosurgery. He received his MD from Harvard in 1925 and remained in Boston to work under Harvey Cushing at the Brigham Hospital, then to Johns Hopkins to serve under Walter Dandy. This was followed by training under Nobelist Charles Sherrington at Oxford. On his return to Boston from England in 1929, Dr. Ingraham's preceptor, Harvey Cushing, turned over to him the rapidly expanding area of neurological surgery in children. At that time the problems peculiar to the developing nervous system which might be amenable to surgical therapy constituted a virtually unexplored field. Franc Ingraham accepted this challenge and devoted the remainder of his professional career to the development of pediatric neurological surgery.
DONALD DARROW MATSON (1913-1968) graduated from Harvard Medical School. Matson selected Peter Bent Brigham Hospital for his neurosurgical training, which was interrupted during World War II. Matson returned to Boston to become Franc Ingraham's fellow and partner. He was a masterful surgeon and, with Ingraham, published Neurosurgery of Infancy and Childhood in 1954, offered here. Upon Ingraham's retirement, Matson became chairman of the department of neurosurgery at Boston Children's Hospital and Peter Bent Brigham. He was unable to preside at the 1969 meeting that marked the 100th anniversary of Cushing's birth, having contracted Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Matson died at the age of 55, surviving his mentor Ingraham by only 4 years.
FIRST EDITION OF THE WORLD'S FIRST TEXTBOOK ON PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGERY.
Ten inches tall hardcover, tan cloth binding with red embossed neuron to cover, color frontispiece photos of neurosurgical lesions, i-xvii, 456 pp, 381 figures,[1]. Light wear to cover edges, signature of "Forrest L. Johnson M.d., 3/31/54" to front paste-down, otherwise unmarked. Very good in custom archival mylar cover.
FRANC DOUGLAS INGRAHAM (1898–1965) was a pioneer in the development of pediatric neurosurgery. He received his MD from Harvard in 1925 and remained in Boston to work under Harvey Cushing at the Brigham Hospital, then to Johns Hopkins to serve under Walter Dandy. This was followed by training under Nobelist Charles Sherrington at Oxford. On his return to Boston from England in 1929, Dr. Ingraham's preceptor, Harvey Cushing, turned over to him the rapidly expanding area of neurological surgery in children. At that time the problems peculiar to the developing nervous system which might be amenable to surgical therapy constituted a virtually unexplored field. Franc Ingraham accepted this challenge and devoted the remainder of his professional career to the development of pediatric neurological surgery.
DONALD DARROW MATSON (1913-1968) graduated from Harvard Medical School. Matson selected Peter Bent Brigham Hospital for his neurosurgical training, which was interrupted during World War II. Matson returned to Boston to become Franc Ingraham's fellow and partner. He was a masterful surgeon and, with Ingraham, published Neurosurgery of Infancy and Childhood in 1954, offered here. Upon Ingraham's retirement, Matson became chairman of the department of neurosurgery at Boston Children's Hospital and Peter Bent Brigham. He was unable to preside at the 1969 meeting that marked the 100th anniversary of Cushing's birth, having contracted Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Matson died at the age of 55, surviving his mentor Ingraham by only 4 years.