Frozen Sections of a Child. Fifteen Drewings from Nature

New York: William Wood & Co., 1881. First edition.

SCARCE ATLAS OF EARLY SECTIONAL ANATOMY BY HARVARD ANATOMIST USING TISSUE FROZEN BY "NATURAL COLD".

11 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, bookplates of Michael F. Fallon and Noble Suyham Rustum Maluf to front paste-down, small handstamp of Dr. M. F. Fallon, Worcester, Mass., to front free endpaper and title page, handstamp "Fallon Clinic Library" bottom of page 7. 66 pp, 15 plates. Light wear to cover corners and spine ends, pages age-toned. No external library marks, pages crisp and clean. Very good minus in custom archival mylar cover. PREFACE: "The sections that form the basis of this little work were made, with many others, during the winter of 1880-81, to illustrate my lectures at the Harvard Medical School. The sections were so in structive, and the series so perfect, that I was very anxious to have them drawn and published. The subject was the body of a girl, said to be three years old. The anatomy of this age has received little attention, and I hope that this work may therefore be of use. The reader is urged, however, to study the plates carefully for himself. They are of life-size, and drawn from the sections with great care and patience. The arteries were injected. My experience with frozen sections enables me to offer the following directions for making them. I always use natural cold when possible. Weather much above zero (Fahrenheit) is unsatisfactory; but if the part is thoroughly chilled by several days' exposure to a pretty low temperature, a night of 10° may possibly finish it. The body should be frozen like a rock-so much so that the operator cannot tell whether he is cutting bone or muscle. The sections should be made in a cold room, with a sharp saw that has been chilled. The specimens from which these plates are made are preserved at the Harvard Medical School, and are at hand to solve any doubts that may arise. To study the plates turn the book so that the vertebra is nearest to you and imagine that you are looking down into your own body."â€"70 Beacon Street, Boston, July, 1881.

THOMAS DWIGHT (1843 - 1911) was an American physician who graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 1867. He then studied abroad. He was then instructor in comparative anatomy at Harvard College, and succeeded Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. as Parkman professor of anatomy at Harvard Medical School in 1883. In the Warren Museum of Anatomy at Harvard, Dwight arranged a section of osteology, considered one of the best in existence, and he had an international reputation as an anatomist. He served as the third president of the Association of American Anatomists from 1894-1895.

PROVENANCE: MICHAEL FRANCIS FALLON (1863 - 1936), founder of the Fallon Clinic, was a surgeon who was born and died in Worcester, Massachusetts. NOBLE SUYDAM RUSTUM MALUF (1913-2011) was American surgeon. Master of Science, Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell University, 1936. Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, 1946. Diplomate American Board Surgery, American Board Urology. Sterling fellow Yale University, New Haven, 1936-1937, Honorary fellow 1937-1939, Johnston Scholar Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1939-1940.