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Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1959. First edition.SIGNED ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON PEDIATRIC INTUSSUSCEPTION BY PIONEER IN NONOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT.
21x58.5 cm hardcover blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, inscribed & signed front paste-down, "For Miss Isabelle Forhall/ with high regard/ Mark M Ravitch/ Baltimore Sept 26, 62." color frontis diagram of intussusception, [i-xii], 121 pp, 43 figures in text, bibliography, author index. very good in very good dust jacket in protective mylar cover.
MARK M. RAVITCH (1910-1989) was an American surgeon. He received his M.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1934 and remained at Johns Hopkins to complete his surgical training, which he finished in 1943 under the mentorship of Alfred Blalock. He returned to Johns Hopkins at the conclusion of the war, becoming a professor of surgery in 1946. In the late 1940s he developed a new treatment for intussusception. His technique involved the use of a barium enema which could reduce intestinal pressure without the… Read More