"The Operative Story of Goitre. The Author's Operation." Reprinted from the Johns Hopkins Hospital Reports, Vol. XIX, 1920, pp. 71-257; plates XIV-XXIV. SIGNED BY WILLIAM S. HALSTED

HALSTED, William S.

Published by 1920.

About this Item

pp. 71-267. Original wrappers. Author and title written in ink on paper spine. Some leaves roughly opened. Small piece broken off bottom blank corner of first leaf. The pages are mostly unopened. Very Good. First Edition. SIGNED BY WILLIAM S. HALSTED: "To Mr. Richard J. White/ with the regards of/ W S Halsted." Richard J. White was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Johns Hopkins Hospital at the time this monograph was published. First Edition. "A careful study of the whole history of surgical efforts to relieve the discomforts and disabilities that may threaten lives of those suffering from the many kinds of disease of the thyroid. He recounts in detail the dangers and terrors of such operations, and the gradual evolution of methods by which the major difficulties, especially resulting from hemorrhage, were overcome, and finally he gives a description of his own method of operating which had proved so successful" (MacCallum, William Stewart Halsted, p. 147).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: "The Operative Story of Goitre. The Author's Operation." Reprinted from the Johns Hopkins Hospital Reports, Vol. XIX, 1920, pp. 71-257; plates XIV-XXIV. SIGNED BY WILLIAM S. HALSTED
• Publisher: 1920.
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)