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Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First separate edition. 64 pp; 27 illus. Original cloth. Very Good+. First published in two parts in consecutive issues of Surgery (Aug., Sept. 1960). Ravitch 'was the author of 22 medical texts, wrote more than 450 scientific papers and editorials and contributed more than 100 chapters to books written by others. As a result of his extensive wrotings he was named official historian of the American Surgical Association, of which he was president in 1983 and 1984. He wrote a two-volume chronology, 'A Century of American Surgery,' documenting surgical developments from 1880 to 1980' ('Mark M. Ravitch Is Dead at 78; A Surgeon, Professor and Author', New York Times, March 4, 1989).