SELECTED READINGS IN PATHOLOGY; Second Edition, Signed

blue cloth, gilt spine, 306 pages, illustrated, frontis., index, signed in ink on front free endpaper, "William and Enid Boyd with all good wishes Marian and Esmond Long" William Boyd,[1885-1979] was born in Scotland, He received his MD in 1908 in Edinburgh and after a years service with a field ambulance unit in France during WW1 joined the medical faculty at the Univ. of Manitoba. His books include "Surgical Pathology"; "Pathology for the Surgeon" and "The Pathology of Internal Diseases in 1931 (later called "Pathology for the Physician". In 1937 he joined the teaching staff at the Univ. of Toronto. He was the only Canadian recipient of the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists gold-headed cane.He was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1968. Enid Boyd, his wife was the daughter of David Christie, minister of Westminster Church, Winnipeg. In the 1930s Esmond R. Long (1890-1979) the author of this work, and Florence B. Seibert (1898-1991) developed a better diagnostic test for the deadly lung infection tuberculosis (TB), the PPD test, which is still the standard test in use today.Garrison-Morton 2318 for 1 st edit. (1929) . In protective mylar jacket. Size: 8 vo..…