Wood, Paul.

Diseases of the Heart and Circulation.

First Edition. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950. Octavo (17 cm wide x 24.5 cm). Colour-Frontispiece, XXX, 589 pages. Numerous illustrations throughout. Hardcover [publisher’s original cloth] with faded lettering on spine. Very good, firm condition with only minor signs of external wear, like some rubbing and bumping to top and bottom spine. Name of preowner on endpaper. Otherwise the interior bright and clean. Extremely rare book !

Paul Wood (1907-1962), the leader of European cardiology during the mid-20th century, was internationally renowned for his bedside teaching, clinical investigations, and an important textbook on cardiology. His studies, based on a unique quantitative approach to the grading and recording of clinical data, introduced cardiac physiology to the bedside, brought accuracy to the preoperative assessment of cardiac disease, and became the foundation for much of the current understanding about congenital and rheumatic heart disease and pulmonary hypertension.
His 1950 textbook, Diseases of the Heart and Circulation, characterized by his lucid and personal style of writing and a fresh physiologic approach to cardiology, brought Wood worldwide recognition as the European authority on heart disease.
(ME and E Silverman, ‘To Die in One’s Prime: The Story of Paul Wood, American Journal of Cardiology, January 2000, 1:85 (1), pp.75-88)
Wood wrote the first draft of his textbook on the heart and circulation at the end of the war, but the manuscript was lost, and he had to rewrite it in its entirety. When published in 1950, it quickly became the bible of cardiology; so highly desired, when it went out of print, cardiologists were desperate to get hold of a copy. It emphasized that clinicians were expected to make a preliminary diagnosis from a detailed clinical examination of the heart, with subsequent confirmation by ancillary tests.
’George Dunea, ‘Paul Wood: In Memoriam,’ Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities website)

• Keywords: Cardiology · Catalogue No.9 – Medicine · Heart · Heart Disease · History of Cardiology · History of Medicine · Medical · Medical care · Medicine · Medicine – Rare
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 31908AB

EUR 1.800,--