Abt-Garrison History of Pediatrics

Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Co., 1965. First edition.

LANDMARK HISTORY OF PEDIATRICS INSCRIBED BY PHYSICIAN SON OF LEGENDARY CHICAGO PEDIATRICIAN ISAAC ABT.

15X23.5 cm hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, ink inscription front free endpaper, "March 25, 1965/ To Charlie, My roomate at Medical School in our freshman year at johns Hopkins, who met Dr Fielding Garrison with me at Warren Harding's inauguration. My warm friend for many years - with admiration for his many accomplshments in medicine/ Your classmate/ Class of 1923/ Art". i-x, 316 pp, 53 figures in text. CONTENTS: History of Pediatrics by Fielding H. Garrison; Newborn and Premature Infant; Infectious Disease; Nutrition; Endocrinology; Inborn Errors of Metabolism; Congenital Malformations; Surgery; Advances in Nonsurgical Cardiology; Chemotherapy of Neoplasms; Accidents and Iatrogenic Diseases; Allergy; Child Psychology; Renal Diseases and Genitourinary Disturbances; Laboratory Aids; The Blood; Miscellaneous.

ARTHUR F. ABT (1898-1974) was the son of Isaac A. Abt, and Professor of Pediatrics at Nortwestern University Medical School.

ISAAC ARTHUR ABT (1867-1965) graduated from the newly established Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1891. He attended ward rounds with William Osler, studied pathology under William Welch, and history of medicine under Fielding Garrison. This was followed by 2 years of study in Europe with prominent physicians in several countries. In 1894 he returned to Chicago, his hometown, working at Northwestern University, Michael Reese Hospital, and Cook County Hospital. He served as chair of pediatrics at Northwestern from 1909 to 1939. In conjunction with Michael Reese Hospital, he founded the Sarah Morris Children's Hospital, regarded as the equal of the Harriet Lane Home of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Abt was president of the American Pediatric Society, honorary member of the German Pediatric Society, and editor of the monumental System of Pediatrics published in 1923. In 1944 he published his autobiography, The Baby Doctor. His collection of Jacobi's works and other historical medical books is now in the Joseph Brenneman Library of Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago.

FIELDING HUDSON GARRISON (1870 – 1935) was an acclaimed medical historian, bibliographer, and librarian of medicine. Garrison's An Introduction to the History of Medicine (1913) is a landmark text in this field. Garrison joined the staff of the Army Medical Library as a clerk in 1891 (the AML was to become the National Library of Medicine many years after Garrison's death). Garrison was assigned to index medical literature. In this he worked closely with John Shaw Billings. Garrison wrote the first comprehensive treatise on the history of medicine and "gained recognition as the foremost American authority on the subject" (according to the Dictionary of American Biography). From 1930, Garrison was lecturer in the history of medicine and librarian of the Welch Medical Library of the Johns Hopkins University.