Illustrations Digestive Tract: Signed (1 results)
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Add to basketNew York, Paul H.Hoeber, 1928, 8°, XIX, 447 pp.,100 Ill., orig. cloth; tipped in his signed calling card "H(enry) A(lbert) Harris* with kindest rememberances of happy visits in Rochester from Walter C. Alvarez". This is pratically a new book in plan and scope. The first edition was little more than a detailed statement of the gr…adient theory with its bearing on the problems of gastroenterology; this one represents a determined effort to make readily available to thoughtful practitioners such information about the mechanics of the digestive tract as they need daily in their struggles to improve their diagnsotic and therapeutic technic. Walter Clement Alvarez (1884-1978) from 1913 to the end of 1925, Alvarez practiced internal medicine in San Francisco and conducted research at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1934 he became Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota (Mayo Foundation) and later served as Consultant in Medicine Emeritus. Alvarez' syndrome, a syndrome of hysterical or neurotic abdominal bloating without any excess of gas in the digestive tract, and Alvarez-waves, painless uterine contractions occurring during the length of pregnancy, are named after him; and he was the first who investigated electric activity of a stomach and, thereby, became the founder of a new diagnostic gastroenterology branch, the electrogastrography. Since 1950 Alvarez began writing a medical column which soon became syndicated throughout North America in hundreds of daily and weekly newspapers. He became one of the most well-known physicians in the USA, with numerous appearances on radio and television. His status led to him being referred to as "America's Family Doctor". *Harris lines were named afer Henry Albert Harris (1886-1968), a Welsh anatomists. Garrison & Morton No.1035 (1st. Ed. 1922).