Noguchi (signed)

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Front and rear Dust Jacket flaps are laid-in. Biography of Hideyo Noguchi (1876-1928), Japanese-born bacteriologist of the Rockefeller Institute. Noguchi made important advances in the study of snake venoms, smallpox and yellow-fever vaccines, and the laboratory diagnosis of trachoma. In 1913, he isolated the cause of syphilis and developed a skin test for it. He made major contributions to the understanding of Rocky Mountain spotted fever and infectious jaundice. Dr. Noguchi died in West Africa while investigating the cause of yellow fever. This copy is INSCRIBED by the AUTHOR to Dr. Arthur C. Bachmeyer, who was Superintendent of Cincinnati General Hospital from 1915-1934, and Dean of the Medical School there, 1925 through 1933. Subsequently Bachmeyer became dean and director at the University of Chicago. Dr. Bachmeyer served as president of the American Hospital Association. With Gerhard Hartman, he edited The Hospital in Modern Society (New York, Commonwealth Fund, 1943.) Established by the University of Chicago in his honor is the Arthur C. Bachmeyer Memorial Address, featured annually at the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Congress on Healthcare Management. It was in Cincinnati that the author met Bachmeyer. Eckstein earned his M. D. degree at the University of Cincinnati and in 1922 joined the faculty there as instructor in physiology. For a fascinating profile of Eckstein, see Kunitz: Twentieth Century Authors, First Supplement, 1955; pp. 298-299. Original black cloth. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Partial jacket - flaps only. 8vo. 419pp.