Gastroscopy; The Endoscopic Study of Gastric Pathology by Schindler, Rudolf

Philadelphia: University of Chicago Press 1950, 2nd edition. (Small 4to) 433pp. Very good plus, no dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the cover and spine. Top edge stained red. Illustrations, diagrams, tables, photographs, bibliography, indices, color plates. The gilt lettering on the spine is rubbed, there is a ring mark on the back cover and a previous owner's name on the front endpaper. "Thirty years is the usual time for the introduction of a new method of medical practice. This time is necessary to convince the conservative and to train an advance guard of enthusiastic supporters. Gastroscopy is unique in that it is an accepted and used method only some ten years after its introduction into America and the first publication of this book. The gastroscopic method has resulted in extraordinary progress in gastric pathology in the short span of years. This progress has made necessary a complete revision of the book" - from the Preface to the Second Edition. Book about Gastric Disease & Gastroscopy. Preface by Walter L. Palmer. (Medicine, Clinical Anatomy, Medicine, Pathology).