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Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1934. First edition.BIOGRAPHY OF JOHNS HOPKINS FIRST HEAD OF ANATOMY BY HIS MENTEE, FIRST WOMAN ELECTED TO THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES--COPY OF NOTED NY CARDIOLOGIST.
8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, decorative bookplate of Sidney P Swartz MD. to front paste-down, frontis portrait of Franklin Pain Mall, i-xiii, 342 pp, 8 photographic portraits of Mall from early chilhood to the year of his death. Light wear to cover edges, light browning to pages, clean and unmarked except for in underlining of one sentence on page 48: "the quality of the teacher is more important than the subject taught". Very good in custom archival mylar cover.
FLORENCE RENA SABIN (1871 – 1953) was a pioneer for women in science; she was the first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and the first woman to head a department at the Rockefeller… Read More