Thorwald, Jurgen: The Dismissal: The Last Days of Ferdinand Sauerbruch

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Thorwald, Jurgen : The Dismissal: The Last Days of Ferdinand Sauerbruch

Pantheon Books, New York, 1962

256pp. B&W Illustrations. . Front free endpaper is rubber stamped with a small ' THANK YOU' in a circle. Also, a year and price is written neatly in ink. DJ has some edgewear and small chips at spine ends . Sauerbruch was one of the greatest surgeons in the history of medicine. His development of a pressure chamber early in the 20 th century proved that diseases of the chest were operable, and largely as a result of his accomplishment, thoracic surgery was soon on a par with abdominal surgery. He performed the first successful extirpation of a cancer of the lung, was a pioneer in the surgery of the esophagus and the heart, and was an outstanding experimenter and teacher, 8vo, Very Good in Good+ DJ

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