Auscultation of the Heart, Second Edition (signed)

Chicago, Illinois: Year Book Medical Publishers, Inc., 1970. Near Fine condition. Clean, square, tight. Pages are fresh and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bound in the original peach-color cloth. This copy is inscribed by the author on the title page: "To Dr. Kruesi. Nice to have you read this. [signed] Abe Ravin." Dr. Kruesi's small signature is on the front endpaper. [A nutrition and alternative medicine expert, Dr. Kruesi was medical director of New Health Initiatives, Morristown, New Jersey; Associate Professor of Medicine at the Capital University of Integrative Medicine, Washington D.C.; and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Institute for Molecular Medicine, Huntington Beach, California]. Illustrated with diagrams and line drawings. The book has a bibliography, index, and 15 chapters, as follows: 1. Sound; 2. The Stethoscope; 3. Graphic Recording of Auscultation; 4. Heart Sounds; 5. Abnormal and Extra Heart Sounds; 6. Murmurs: General Considerations; 7. Systolic Murmurs; 8. Diastolic Murmurs; 9. Pericardial Friction Rub; Venous Hum; Extracardiac Auscultation; 10. Cardiac Arrhythmias; 11. Congenital Heart Disease; 12. Auscultatory Phenomena in Rheumatic Heart Disease; 13. Auscultatory Phenomena in Various Diseases; 14. Effect of Drugs on Murmurs; 15. Eponyms. Laid-in is a related pamphlet by the same author. . INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Hardcover. Near Fine condition./No dust jacket. 8vo. 242pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.…