The Mechanical Factors of Digestion

London: Edward Arnold, 1911. First edition.

THE INTRODUCTION OF RADIOLOGY TO GASTROENTEROLOGY.

8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, bookplate of Dr. N. S. R. Maluf to front paste-down, handstamp and signature of George J. Mohr MD, "Univ. of Chicago, 10-7-15, 44 Snell Hall," to front free endpaper, dedication to Professor Henry Pickering Bowditch, i-xi, 227 pp. Spine faded, corners worn, very good in custom archival mylar cover.

GARRISON-MORTON No. 1029. Cannon introduced the bismuth meal. He showed that bismuth, opaque to x rays, could be of great use in conjunction with roentgenology in the investigation of the digestive tract. This was Cannon's first major work, describing his classic experiments on the physiology of digestion and his applications of x-rays to the evaluation of gastrointestinal functions.

WALTER BRADFORD CANNON (1871 - 1945) was a protege of Henry Bowditch, America's first full-time physiologist and succeeded him as professor at Harvard in 1902. "As a young investigator, Cannon continued his research on the digestive system. Working extensively with radiographic methods, he investigated gastrointestinal motility, the nature of gastric peristalsis, the mechanism of swallowing, and control of the pylorus. Cannon published his observations and explanations in an influential 1911 text, The Mechanical Factors in Digestion [offered here], often identified as a classic work on gastrointestinal physiology and radiology." Susan Lederer. ANB 4: 338-340. Cannon introduced the bismuth meal and refers to early X-rays of the alimentary canal, using Bi salts, in the first chapter. Heirs of Hippocrates 2283. A classic.

PROVENANCE: 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. GEORGE J. MOHR (1895 – 1965) was an American psychologist and psychoanalyst, attended the University of Chicago, where he graduated with a BS in 1916. He also graduated from Rush Medical College, receiving his MD in 1918. Mohr was the 12th President of the American Orthopsychiatric Association, from 1937 to 1938.