Helen Clapsattle (1 results)

Hardcover. 8vo., 822 pp. Bibliographical Notes, Index; illustrated in photos. First Garden City print following the 1941 University of Minnesota edition. Remarkable multi-signed association copy; autographed by Mayo Clinic surgical. medical and nursing staff. A fair copy of the 1943 edition of Helen Clapesattle's celebrated biography of the Mayo family and the institution they built, including an extraordinary grouping of signatures from physicians who were active members of the Mayo Clinic staff at the very time this book was published. The hinges are starting and the book shows honest wear and handling consistent with a working medical library. At least eight signatures have been identified, including Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt Jr., a Harvard-trained surgeon who joined the Mayo Foundation in 1940 and would go on to serve as head of a section of surgery and senior gynecological surgeon at Mayo for over three decades; and Malcolm B. Dockerty, one of the most celebrated surgical pathologists of the 20th century, who, in one of medicine's great origin stories, rose from poverty on a Prince Edward Island potato farm to become a world authority in gynecologic pathology, publishing over 400 peer-reviewed papers during his career at Mayo. Additional signers include Eugene H. Ellingson of Texas, Dr. Robert Stuart of Lexington, Massachusetts, J.S. Atwater, L.S. Blumenthal, A.B. Hagedorn, and others Ñ all colleagues at the clinic during the early 1940s. Rare item. Signed copies of the first University of Minnesota edition appears occasionally; a copy bearing the signatures of this many working Mayo staff members from the publication era is quite uncommon. Fair with hinges starting and wear and soiling commensurate with age and use.