SIGNED. Time and the Physician: The Autobiography of Lewellys F. Barker

New York: G.P. Putman's Sons, 1942. First edition.

SIGNED AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF EMINENT JOHNS HOPKINS PROFESSOR, SUCCESSOR TO OSLER.

9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, ink signature of author to front free endpaper, frontispiece portrait of author with his signature, small handstamp of Faculty Medical and Chirurgical Library, Baltimore, bottom verso of title page, dedication to the memory of Sir William Osler, William H. Welch, and Franklin P. Mall, i-ix, 350 pp, 6 photographic plates. Very good in very good dust jacket with light edgewear, in protective mylar sleeve.

LEWELLYS FRANKLIN BARKER (1867 - 1943) received his Bachelor of Medicine degree in 1890 from the University of Toronto Medical School. After interning at Toronto General Hospital, he came to Johns Hopkins in 1892 to join the staff of William Osler's Clinic. He later held a fellowship and served a residency in pathology. In 1897, he was appointed associate professor of anatomy. While at Johns Hopkins, Barker made several trips abroad to further his studies. He studied in Germany in Karl Ludwig's physiological laboratory and toured the South Pacific, Asia, and India to study hospital diseases. In 1900, Barker was appointed professor and chair of anatomy at the University of Chicago. Shortly after arriving in Chicago, he was appointed to the 1901 Federal Commission on Plague in San Francisco. In 1905, Barker was appointed director of medicine and physician-in-chief at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, succeeding William Osler. "Under Dr. Osler the opportunities for careful observation were never better and the importance of careful study of the more superficial aspects of disease never more insisted upon. Dr. Barker on the other hand held that a primary affiliation of the university department of medicine should be the encouragement of research and accordingly that the professor of medicine should be freed from the burdens of a private practice and allowed to devote his time to his own investigations and those of his staff."--Bordley & Harvey Two Centuries of American Medicine 1976