Bound Notebook of Typed Notes Illustrated with Original Drawings of Comparative Anatomy (Zoology B1), Sept. 25, 1914 - Feb. 12, 1915 and Embryology, Feb. 17, 1916 - May 7, 1916 de Churchill, Edward Delos ( Noted Thoracic Surgeon) - 1914

No Place: The Author, 1914. The peronal lecture notebook of Edward Delos Churchill, then an undergraduate student at Northwestern University in Chicago. Contains 27 dated lectures on Comparative Anatomy (Zoology B1) and 22 on Embryology along with Churchill's excellent drawings in ink and some pencil notations. Small scuff at spine, Else Fine. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering and rules at spine. Churchill's distinctive bookplate front paste down, and his typed title page stapled to front end page - "A, 4. 4. Bound notebood (sic) -- typed 1. Comparative Anatomy (Zoology B1), Sept. 25, 1914 - Feb. 12, 1915. 2. Embryology, Feb. 17, 1916 - May 7, 1916." Edward Delos Churchill (1895-1972) graduated from Northwestern University in 1917 and received his medical degree in 1920 from Harvard Medical School. In 1931 he became the chief of the West Surgical Service at Massachusetts General Hospital, while at the same time becoming the John Homans Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, a position he would fill for thirty-one years until 1962 upon receiving emeritus status. Dr. Churchill's work with Dr. Cecil Drinker of Harvard Medical School lead to the early development of surgery for lung cancer and helping introduce the surgical treatment of tuberculosis in New England. In1928, Dr. Churchill performed the first successful pericardiectomy in the United States, a treatment for constrictive pericarditis which had long been considered inoperable. Dr. Churchill is credited with more than 150 medical publications, and belonged to many medical organization. (History of Mass General Hospital, Catalog 119). . Cloth. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.