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Little, Brown and Company, Published 1960. Hardcover, xiv, 295 pp.; 28 cm; First Edition; illustrated with black-and-white photographs, photomicrographs, x-rays and diagrams. Edited by Benjamin Castleman and H. Robert Dudley, Jr.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition with an Acceptable+ dust jacket. Tan cloth boards with Little, Brown device blind-stamped on front cover and black lettering on spine; bumping to corners, mild shelf and edge wear. Binding tight. Inscribed and signed by Benjamin Castleman in ink on front free endpaper to a physician, "With warmest regards & a memento of my stay at Mills Hospital," dated January 1976. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket (pen-and-ink drawing of the Bulfinch Building by Paul Hawthorne, printed on magenta) has several chips and tears of 1 inch or less, creasing along edges, mild to moderate shelf and edge wear with some color loss along edges, toning to spine, and some soiling to rear panel. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Fifty cases from the Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital, the weekly clinicopathological conferences published in the New England Journal of Medicine between 1936 and 1959. The method, begun at MGH by Richard C. Cabot, became a standard of medical teaching: a case history is presented, a clinician gives a differential diagnosis, and the pathologist reports the findings. Discussants include Fuller Albright, Paul D. White, Soma Weiss, C. Miller Fisher and Arnold Relman. Castleman (1906-1982), chief of the James Homer Wright Pathology Laboratories at MGH and longtime editor of the Case Records, is the namesake of Castleman disease; he contributes Case 24 and many of the pathological discussions. Dedicated to Richard Clarke Cabot and Tracy Burr Mallory. Contents: Preface; Cases 1-50; List of Discussants; Index.