CUSHING, HARVEY. 1869-1939. Intracranial Tumours. Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1932. 8vo (251 x 161 mm). Publisher's cloth, printed dust jacket, browning to spine, chip to upper margin, affecting "I" of "Intracranial." Provenance: Lucian Price (presentation inscription from Harvey Cushing); James T. Goodrich (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. Inscribed by Cushing (as "H.C.") for Lucian Price, and annotated, "Unfit for him to read, scarcely fit for print." "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-Norman 4900). Cushing Society 16.
CUSHING, HARVEY. 1869-1939. Intracranial Tumours. Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1932. 8vo (251 x 161 mm). Publisher's cloth, printed dust jacket, browning to spine, chip to upper margin, affecting "I" of "Intracranial." Provenance: Lucian Price (presentation inscription from Harvey Cushing); James T. Goodrich (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. Inscribed by Cushing (as "H.C.") for Lucian Price, and annotated, "Unfit for him to read, scarcely fit for print." "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-Norman 4900). Cushing Society 16.
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