The Medical Career: An Address on "The Ideals, Opportunities, and Difficulties of the Medical Profession" Containing a Tribute to Dr. Nathan Smith, Founder of the Dartmouth Medical School, Delivered at Dartmouth College, November 20, 1928. SIGNED BY HARVEY CUSHING

CUSHING, Harvey

Published by Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1929.

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53 pp, with portrait of Nathan Smith. Original stiff blue printed wrappers. Large paper label ("Cushing" written in ink on label) on the front wrapper, partially covering title printed on front wrapper (see photo). Inner front hinge cracked, else Very Good. First Edition. SIGNED BY HARVEY CUSHING on the front flyleaf: "With the regards of/ Harvey Cushing" (see photos). Prefatory Note by Ambrose White Vernon (pp. 3-4). Cushing Bibliography no. 274. "November [1928] was largely devoted to operating and preparing one of his most attractive general addresses entitled 'The medical career,' which he presented at Dartmouth College on the 20th of the month. The address bears the subtitle 'The ideals, opportunities, and difficulties of the medical profession including a tribute to Dr. Nathan Smith, founder of the Dartmouth Medical School.' The blood of the country doctor still flowed forcefully in Cushing's veins and since Ian Maclaren's Doctor of the old school was a particular favorite, he recommended that every prospective medical student should read it 'if he wishes to know what may be the reward of the country doctor in the love and affection of his patients. . . .' He also could not refrain from quoting the prayer uttered by President Wheelock of Dartmouth in 1798, which ran: 'O Lord, we thank Thee for the Oxygen Gas; we thank Thee for the Hydrogen Gas; and for all the gasses. We thank Thee for the Cerebrum; we thank Thee for the Cerebellum; and for the Medulla Oblongata. Amen!' (Fulton, Harvey Cushing, pp. 565-66).".

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• Title: The Medical Career: An Address on "The Ideals, Opportunities, and Difficulties of the Medical Profession" Containing a Tribute to Dr. Nathan Smith, Founder of the Dartmouth Medical School, Delivered at Dartmouth College, November 20, 1928. SIGNED BY HARVEY CUSHING
• Publisher: Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1929.
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)