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New York: American Heart Association, 1936. First edition.1936 SCARCE LANDMARK ATLAS OF CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE BY CANADIAN PIONEER WHO ANALYZED POSTMORTEM ANATOMY OF 1,000 CASES.
27x35 cm folio, original maroon cloth boards, cover and spine gilt, hand stamp of Blanca Smith M.D., Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, on card affixed to ffep, bookseller ticket to bottom of front paste-down, small handstamp to title page from Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. Frontispiece portraits of great scientists who have contributed to congenital heart disease, i-x, 62 pp including 25 full-page plates and table of "Statistics of congenital cardiac disease (1,000 cases analyzed)." Edges rubbed, white paint streaks to back cover, hinges cracked but binding secure, text age-toned, very good minus in custom archival mylar cover.
MAUDE ELIZABETH SEYMOUR ABBOTT (1868–1940) was a Canadian physician, among Canada's earliest female medical graduates, and an internationally known expert on congenital… Read More