Röntgen-Diagnostik der Erkrankungen des Kopfes. Presentation inscription to Harvey Cushing.
Publisher Information: Vienna & Leipzig: Alfred Hölder, 1912.
[Cushing, Harvey (1869-1939).] Schüller, Arthur (1874-1957). Röntgen-Diagnostik der Erkrankungen des Kofpes. [iii] – vii, 219pp. 5 silverprint photographic plates, each with printed outline key; text illustrations. Vienna and Leipzig: Alfred Hölder, 1912. 241 x 163 mm. Original half morocco over pebbled cloth boards. Rebacked. Fine . Presentation Copy, inscribed by the author to Cushing on the title: “Herrn Professor Cushing hochachtungsvoll [illegible] vom Verfasser.”
First Edition of Schüller’s “fundamental work on radiological examination of the skull” (Garrison-Morton.com 4596.1). Schüller inscribed this copy to Harvey Cushing, presenting it to him during a visit by Cushing to Vienna: “In the same year that Schüller published his book, Harvey Cushing, the great American neurosurgeon, visited the Vienna group and the two met. Arthur Schüller presented Cushing with a copy of his recently published work, and after returning to Baltimore, Harvey Cushing sent Schüller a copy of his own work [The Pituitary Body and its Disorders]. It was accompanied by a characteristically graceful letter which appears to be the only letter Arthur Schüller ever deliberately kept” (J. Keith and M. Henderson, Arthur Schüller: Founder of Neuroradiology [web]).
Schüller founded the discipline of neuroradiology, and his Röntgen-Diagnostik became the standard textbook of its time on the subject. The work describes and illustrates many of the classic “plain film” findings, including pineal shift, cranial calcification and diseases of the pituitary fossa. An English translation was published in 1918. The plates in this original edition are original photographic prints rather than halftones, suggesting that the original printing may have been small.
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